This repository showcases how to use The Weather Company Data within Salesforce.
- A Lightning component that displays the current weather, a 3-day forecast and - if applicable - weather alerts.
- Apex classes for Process Builder invocation or Scheduled Apex
You can see the Lightning component here in action:
This implementation does not reflect the planned The Weather Company integrations as announced here (i. e. with push data). It rather showcases how to use existing APIs to fetch data on demand.
Read more about using weather data with the Lightning component or in your custom workflows on the Salesforce Developer Relations blog.
Access to The Weather Company Data is available via an IBM Bluemix service. Signup here for the service.
You can find an overview of the API in the The Weather Company Data REST API explorer.
You can add the source code of this repo via your favorite tooling (i. e. Salesforce DX or the Force.com IDE). Alternatively you can use this unmanaged package to install the code for the Lightning component into a Salesforce org.
After you've added the source code you have to set up the a new Named Credential.
- Go to Setup.
- Enter Named Credentials in the quick find box and select the highlighted entry.
- Click on New Named Credential.
- Enter the following values:
- Label: IBM Weather
- Name: IBM_Weather
- URL: https://twcservice.mybluemix.net
- Identity Type: Named Principial
- Authentication Protocol: Password Authentication
- Username: the individual username from the Bluemix service
- Password: the individual password from the Bluemix service
- Confirm by clicking on Save.
The Lightning component fetches the current weather, forecast and alert data based on latitude and longitude information of the current object. Is is designed to work out of the box with Account, Contact and Lead objects. For that you have to enable the automatic geocoding feature within your Salesforce org. This will automatically add longitude and latitude data to the aforementioned objects.
- Go to Setup.
- Enter Data Integration Rules in the quick find box and select the highlighted entry.
- Activate for the wanted objects the geocoding feature.
Depending on the number of objects in your org it may take some time till the records are updated with the geocodes. You can see the status in the Data Integration Rules view. Once it is activated the geocodes will be updated everytime an object of that type is saved.
Just drop it via Lightning App Builder into a Lightning record page (Account, Contact, Lead) of your choice to see it in action.
It uses also some backend Apex classes which handle the communication with the APIs.
For licensing see the included license file.