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Learning Force.com Application Development

By : Chamil Madusanka
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Learning Force.com Application Development

By: Chamil Madusanka

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Learning Force.com Application Development
Chamil Madusanka
Apr, 2015 | 406 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Force.com Application Development
Learning Force.com Application Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Force.com
Getting Started with Force.com
Introduction to the Force.com platform
Designing and developing applications on the Force.com platform
Identifying building blocks of the Force.com platform
The sample application
Summary
2
Building the Data Model
Building the Data Model
Creating objects
Creating custom fields
Summary
3
Building the User Interface
Building the User Interface
Creating a Force.com custom application
Creating custom tabs
Customizing page layouts
An overview of Visualforce
Summary
4
Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data
Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data
Design considerations
An overview of Force.com licenses
The security framework of the Force.com platform
Summary
5
Implementing Business Processes
Implementing Business Processes
Preserving data quality with validation rules
Automating the business process using workflows
Automating the business process using approval processes
Summary
6
Data Management on the Force.com Platform
Data Management on the Force.com Platform
Data management operations
Force.com record IDs
Data management tools
Summary
7
Custom Coding with Apex
Custom Coding with Apex
Introducing Apex
Working with Apex
Writing Apex code – object-oriented programming in Apex
Triggers
Force.com platform query languages
Data manipulation on the Force.com platform
Summary
8
Building Custom Pages with Visualforce
Building Custom Pages with Visualforce
Introducing Visualforce
The concepts of Visualforce
The order of execution of a Visualforce page
Visualforce custom components
Advantages of Visualforce
Summary
9
Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform
Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform
Reports
Custom report types
Dashboards
Reporting snapshot
Summary
10
E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform
E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform
Handling inbound e-mails
Sending e-mails
Visualforce e-mail templates
Summary
11
Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites
Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites
Force.com sites
Creating and customizing your first Force.com site
Best practices on Force.com sites
Summary
12
Deploying the Force.com Application
Deploying the Force.com Application
Application development methodology and architecture
Migrating configuration changes
Sandboxes
Packages
Simple deployment with the Force.com IDE
Distributing Force.com applications onto AppExchange
Summary
Force.com Tools
Force.com Tools
Development tools
Data tools
Cloud integration tools
Language integration libraries
Salesforce platform mobile services
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we have learnt about the data management operations in the Force.com platform, including the CRUD commands and upsert command. We learned about the behavior and importance of the Force.com IDs and the External IDs. Finally, we covered the data management tools in the Force.com platform, including cloud-based tools and API-based tools. In the next chapter, you are going to learn about Apex, which is used for custom coding in the Force.com platform.

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