Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

Lightning Utility Bar

In a Lightning Application, you can add Lightning Components to the horizontal footer. This can be very useful for adding productive tools such as a simple calculator, reports, recent items, a Computer Telephony Interface (CTI) softphone, and any other quick access tools that your sales or support representatives might find useful.

To make a Lightning Components available as a utility, the component must implement the flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes interface.

We will explore all of the interfaces later, as we learn how to build Lightning Components.

The following screenshot shows how you can edit a Lightning Application from the App Manager and add a Utility Bar to a Lightning Application:

The horizontal footer ...