Eric Smith

About Eric Smith

I have spent over 40 years in the business of technology. I founded my own IT firms, ValCom and VTec, where we provided Sales, Service, Consulting and Training for personal and mini-computers throughout northern New England. After 23 years as a business owner, I spent 10 years as a Senior Sales Rep covering Government and Medical customers, then worked 8 years for a telecommunications company spending the last few years as the Director of Software Development.

I'm a Salesforce MVP and Lightning Champion and now I am thrilled to be putting my experience to work as a Technical Architect for GearsCRM.

Entries by Eric Smith

Navigate to a Record in View or Edit Mode at the end of a Flow

September 19, 2019/1 Comment/in Flow/by Eric Smith

A common need in Flows is to be able to redirect the user to a new record that may have been created in the Flow. This new Lightning Flow Action can be used to redirect the user to the specified record in either View Mode or Edit Mode. ersNavigateToRecord

Load a Visualforce Page with Parameters in Lightning

February 28, 2019/3 Comments/in Lightning Pages/by Eric Smith

I was looking to display Visualforce pages using the RecordId inside of my Lightning Record pages. After finding a very elegant solution to pass the RecordId from a Lightning Component container to a Visualforce page displayed in an iframe I decided it was time to move the solution from the Sandbox into Production. What worked […]