[Salesforce / Lightning] Trigger automatic Lightning Quick Action popup close

Few days ago my #AwesomeAdmin buddy Tom Blamire asked me:

"Do you know if I can automatically close a Quick Action popup window after triggering an action that does not require a UI (like downloading something from a Visualforce page)?"

The flow was simple as he asked me: click on a quick action on a standard layout page (with Lightning Experience enabled), trigger something (that can be a call to a Visualforce page or simply a backend elaboration from Apex) and close automatically the popup.

This is the solution: in this case the setTimeout() call was necessary because you need to get a bit "asynchronous", but if you make an Apex controller callback, you don't need it.

Thanks to Salesforce Lightning framework it is easy as it seem:

[Salesforce / Lightning] Simple Custom Modal Alert

Hello everybody!

This is an "easy peasy" post that comes from a recent two-weeks full immersion on Lightning Components task I got into at work: there will be more content from this activity and a Cagliari DG presentation as well.

For all the TL;DR guys (and again, I'm one of you!), here is the Github Repository.

The Alert Modal shows an alert modal through a custom event fired from your Lightning components:

var evt = $A.get("e.c:AlertEvt");
        evt.setParams({
            "show": true,                     //shos alert
            "mode": 'prompt',                 //alert mode: prompt, alert, toast
            "fixed": false,                   //fixed does not shows any "close" button
            "type": 'info',                   //type of alert: info, success, warning, error
            "message": 'Title Message',       //main title
            "details": 'Message Details. . .' //details message
        });
        evt.fire();

The event is caught up by the AlertCmp Lightning component that shows the request alert:

Besides the prompt mode, you can use the alert mode:

And a toast mode:

You can test the component in the provided Lightning app: