Custom clone of a record from modal pop up

Question

I have a requirement where on clicking on Lightning Quick Action on detail page of custom object will open a pop up asking "wheter to clone?", if user clicks Yes button in the pop up, clone event should fire showing the values of the record be displayed in edit modal pop up along with Save and cancel button (when save button is clicked a new record is created).

If user clicks No button on the pop up of  "wheter to clone?" then user will go through New record create flow (like record type selection then Create New record modal pop up).

Can you please guide me how to achieve this functionality?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In order to achieve this functionality, you will need to do use an aura component which implements the force:hasRecordId and force:lightningQuickAction interfaces.

You will need to build the "Would you like to clone?" Yes/No part of the user interface within the aura component. When the user makes their selection, you must use the force:createRecord component (See Documentation here). If the user selects yes, then you will need to prompt them for record type selection, then set the default values from the current record. It might be wise to use a field set to determine which fields you want to clone.

Here is an example using the force:createRecord where you set default values:

var createAcountContactEvent = $A.get("e.force:createRecord");
createAcountContactEvent.setParams({
    "entityApiName": "Contact",
    "defaultFieldValues": {
        'Phone' : '415-240-6590',
        'AccountId' : '001xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
    }
});
createAcountContactEvent.fire();

In order to fetch the record types, you must do something like this:

<lightning:radioGroup
 name="radioGroup"
 options="{! v.recordTypeOptions }"
 value="{! v.selectedRecordTypeId }"
 type="radio"/>

private static List<RadioOption> getRecordTypeValues(String objectName) {
    list<RadioOption> returnValue = new List<RadioOption>();
    List<Schema.RecordTypeInfo> recordtypes = Schema.getGlobalDescribe().get(objectName).getDescribe().getRecordTypeInfos();
    for(RecordTypeInfo rt : recordtypes) {
        if(rt.getName() != MASTER && rt.getName().trim() != '' && rt.isAvailable()) {
            RadioOption option = new RadioOption();
            option.value =  rt.getRecordTypeId();
            option.label =  rt.getName();
            returnValue.add(option);
        }
    }
    return returnValue;
}

public class RadioOption {
    @AuraEnabled
    public String value {get; set;}
    @AuraEnabled
    public String label {get; set;}
}