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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

Understanding the different storage types


The storage used by your application records contributes to the most important part of the overall data storage allocation on the platform. There is also another type of storage used by the files uploaded or created on the platform. From the Storage Usage page under the Setup menu, you can see a summary of the records used, including those that reside in the Salesforce Standard Objects.

Note

Later in this chapter, we will be creating a Custom Metadata Type object to store configuration data. Storage consumed by this type of object is not reflected on the Storage Usage page and is managed and limited in a different way.

Tip

The preceding page also shows which users are using the most amount of storage. In addition to the individual's User Details page, you can also locate the Used Data Space and Used File Space fields; next to these are the links to view the users' data and file storage usage.

The limit shown for each is based on a calculation between...