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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development
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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

by Mohit Shrivatsava
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate
458 pages
9h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using custom labels in Lightning Components

Custom labels are used to store constants in Salesforce organizations that can be configured by admins. They are completely configurable, and also allow for translation. If you are building a Lightning component to support multiple languages, all of the hardcoded titles need to be inside of labels, so that the platform automatically takes care of displaying the right label, as per the user settings (user-specified language).

The labels in a Salesforce instance can be created by navigating to Setup | User Interface | Custom Labels and then clicking on the New button. The following screenshot shows how to create a custom label in Salesforce:

To reference this in a Lightning component, the syntax ...

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