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Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401)

By : Siddhesh Kabe
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Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401)

By: Siddhesh Kabe

Overview of this book

<p>When migrating to the new wave of cloud-based applications, we now think about business logic, we think about automating processes, and we think about how we can make the systems better. Force.com is a cloud-based platform that is used to build and deploy enterprise applications on the cloud with minimum coding. Demand for Force.com experts is growing rapidly and companies look for certified professionals. This books comes in handy when you are seeking to clear the Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer exam.<br /><br />The Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401) is a practical guide for you to become a Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer. This book will help you to impress your colleagues with excellent Force.com skills, and prepare for the Dev 401 certification exam. From building applications to automating business processes everything is covered from the certification perspective, and you will gain hands-on expertise with the step-by-step approach of this book.<br /><br />Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401) will help you build and deploy a complete application on Force.com by using point and click. With this book you will learn to create and manage custom objects and their data. You will build the user interface for your applications and automate your business process by using workflows and approvals.<br /><br />This definitive certification guide provides a disciplined approach to be adopted for successfully clearing the DEV 401 exam, which gives you an edge over Force.com developers who are not certified. Each chapter contains ample practice questions at the end.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401)
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Sample Paper Answers
Index

Localization with translation workbench


By default Salesforce fully supports 16 languages and 15 end-user languages. We can easily translate the entire app in one of the supporting languages, however, if we need to localize the app in a custom language not available in the list, we use the translation workbench to manually translate it.

The Translation Workbench lets us specify languages we want to translate, assign translators to languages, create translations for an app, and override labels and translations from managed packages. Everything from custom picklist values to custom fields can be translated in the language.

To open the Translation Workbench go to User name | Setup | Administration Setup | Translation Workbench as shown in the following screenshot:

Setting up translation workbench

To begin with the translation workbench we first need to enable it. Enabling the workbench makes some significant changes in the organization. Once we enable the workbench the following changes occur...