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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

Summary


This chapter has further explored the declarative aspects of developing an application on the platform that applies to how an application is stored and how relational data integrity is enforced through the use of the Lookup field deletion constraints and applying unique fields. The Master-Detail relationships allow you to model containment concepts in your data model. We also considered the data storage implications of extending your schema across columns instead of rows and the benefits on the cost of storage for your end users.

Upload the latest version of the FormulaForce package and install it into your test org. The summary page during the installation of new and upgraded components should look something like the following screenshot. Note that the permission sets are upgraded during the install.

Once you have installed the package in your testing org, visit the Custom Metadata Types page under Setup and click Manage Records next to the object. You will see that the records are...