So far, everything we have created has been a page or class (or trigger), interconnected, yes, but really still standalone. Keeping in line with the chapter's title, we're now going to create an actual app, a collection of tabs, objects, pages, and classes and have it contain our tabs for Property Management Application. Proceed with the following steps:
Navigate to Setup | Create | Apps | New.
Select Custom App (if prompted to select between Console and this).
Name the app as
App Property Management.Upload a custom logo if you want.
Add the following tabs:
Accounts
Contacts
Properties
Rental Agreements
Reports
Make them visible on the next screen and finalize.
You should now be able to click on the blue bubble (app selector) in the top-right part of the screen and select the Property Management app, as shown in the following screenshot:
If you want to add any additional tabs, you can; if they are missing, for example, Statements, you can create a tab and then edit...