Canvas Developer Guide

Introducing Canvas
Quick Start
Quick Start—Advanced
Canvas SDK
Referencing the Canvas SDK
Authentication
Getting Context in Your Canvas App
Cross-Domain XHR
Alternatives to Cookies for User Tracking
Resizing a Canvas App
Implementing Canvas App Events
Using Streaming API in a Canvas App
Debugging in a Canvas App
Using the <select> Tag in a Canvas App
Canvas Apps and Visualforce Pages
Lightning Component Code Examples
Canvas Apps in a Page Layout or a Mobile Card
Canvas Apps in the Publisher
Canvas Apps in the Chatter Feed
Canvas in the Salesforce Mobile App
Customizing Your App Lifecycle
Objects
Canvas Limits
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Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Canvas SDK

Canvas is a set of tools that enable you to integrate your apps within Salesforce. This framework includes an SDK that you can use to authenticate your app and retrieve data from Salesforce.

To prepare your Canvas apps for the new web browser restrictions on third-party cookies, see How Third-Party Cookie Restrictions Impact Salesforce Canvas Apps in Salesforce Help.

Important

The Canvas SDK and code examples are available on GitHub at https://github.com/forcedotcom/salesforcecanvasframeworksdk.

The Canvas SDK is versioned and matches the API version in each release. The current version is 67.0. To check the version of the SDK that you have, call the version method.