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Force.com Canvas vs iFrame
Greetings all. I am new to the Developer world and working through the material and practicing. Taking place in the solution of requirements at Staples, I have come across a confusing topic. At least for me it is.
There is a lot of intergration between our Salesforce instance and various applications. The topic of creating a pleasant user experiene and efficient interaction between a home grown application and our Salesforce instance. The proposed option is to integrate this interface through an iFrame soultion.
My questions is what is the difference/benefits between using an iFrame or incorporating this home grown app into Salesforce via Force.com Canvas?
I would really appreciate if somebody could explain this in plain english. I keep reading the material but it is a little out of my knowledge level and I would truly like to understand it.
Thanks!
There is a lot of intergration between our Salesforce instance and various applications. The topic of creating a pleasant user experiene and efficient interaction between a home grown application and our Salesforce instance. The proposed option is to integrate this interface through an iFrame soultion.
My questions is what is the difference/benefits between using an iFrame or incorporating this home grown app into Salesforce via Force.com Canvas?
I would really appreciate if somebody could explain this in plain english. I keep reading the material but it is a little out of my knowledge level and I would truly like to understand it.
Thanks!
- Security
Your connected app can verify a signature that is sent by Salesforce each time a user want to access your connected app- Context
With the signature, your receive contextual information related to your user, to your current record... No need to do an API call to retrieve this. This is a way to ensure that the access is from a Salesforce authenticated session- Session
You retrive with the signed request a session Id that you can reuse to make API calls, with the same identity as the user. No need to start an oAuth flow or something like that- Interactions
You can interact with the Salesforce user interface, for instance to open a tab in the console. It is real UI-to-UI integration