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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Extending Process Builder and Visualflow


The Process Builder or Visualflow tools allow users to create customized processes and wizard-like user experiences. Both tools offer a large selection of actions they can perform based on criteria defined by the user.

Available actions can be extended by packages installed in the org. This provides another way in which you can expose your functionality for building customized scenarios. This approach does not require the user to write any code.

The following code creates an Invocable Method, which is a global class and a single method with some specific annotations. These annotations are recognized by the tools to present a dynamic configuration UI to allow the user to pass information to and from the method you annotate:

global with sharing class UpdateStandingsAction {
    
   global class UpdateStandingsParameters {
      @InvocableVariable(
         Label='Season Id'
         Description='Season to update the standings for'
         Required=True...