Databind Wijmo Grid to Salesforce.com Data

The CData API Server provides Salesforce data (along with 80+ other sources) as Web services, which enable connectivity to live data. This article shows how to consume JSONP-formatted Salesforce data from a Wijmo Grid.

If you have not already connected successfully in the administration console, see the "Getting Started" chapter in the help documentation for a guide.

Load the required Wijmo, jQuery, and Knockout libraries:

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.0/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  
<!--Theme-->
<link href="http://cdn.wijmo.com/themes/aristo/jquery-wijmo.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
  
<!--Wijmo Widgets CSS-->
<link href="http://cdn.wijmo.com/jquery.wijmo-pro.all.3.20161.90.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
  
<!--Wijmo Widgets JavaScript-->
<script src="http://cdn.wijmo.com/jquery.wijmo-open.all.3.20161.90.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.wijmo.com/jquery.wijmo-pro.all.3.20161.90.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.wijmo.com/interop/wijmo.data.ajax.3.20161.90.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 
<!--Knockout JS Library-->
<!-- Both of the links below can work -->
<script src="http://cdn.wijmo.com/wijmo/external/knockout-2.2.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 
<!--<script src="http://cdn.wijmo.com/amd-js/3.20161.90/knockout-3.1.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script>--> 

<!--Wijmo Knockout Integration Library-->
<script src="http://cdn.wijmo.com/interop/knockout.wijmo.3.20161.90.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Create a ViewModel and connect to it using the ODataView:

<script id="scriptInit" type="text/javascript">
$.support.cors = true;
var viewModel;

function ViewModel() {
  var AccountView = new wijmo.data.ODataView("http://MyServer:MyPort/api.rsc/Account", {
  ajax: {
    dataType: "jsonp", 
    username: "MyUser",
    password: "MyAuthtoken",
    data: { "$inlinecount": null }
  },
  pageSize: 10
});
  accountView.refresh();
  accountView.nextPage();
  this.account = accountView;
  this.prevPage = function () {accountView.prevPage();};
  this.nextPage = function () {accountView.nextPage();};
}

$(document).ready(function () {
   viewModel = new ViewModel();
   ko.applyBindings(viewModel, $(".container").get(0));
});
</script>

Databind: Below is a simple table with some paging buttons, which you can paste into the body section of your markup.

<h2>Edit Live Salesforce Data in Real Time</h2>

<h3>Account</h3>
<div>
  <button title="previous page" class="pagebuttons" data-bind="click: prevPage, button: {}"><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-seek-prev" /></button>
  <button title="next page" class="pagebuttons" data-bind="click: nextPage, button: {}"><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-seek-next" /></button>
</div>
<table id="demo-grid" data-bind="wijgrid: { 
  data: products, 
  allowEditing: true, 
  showFilter: true, 
  allowPaging: true,
  pagerSettings: { position: 'none'},
  columnsAutogenerationMode: 'append',
}" >
</table>

Below is the resulting grid. You can filter, sort, edit, and save. Paging makes working with large datasets manageable.

Databind Wijmo Grid to Salesforce.com Data

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