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Hands-On Low-Code Application Development with Salesforce

By : Enrico Murru
Book Image

Hands-On Low-Code Application Development with Salesforce

By: Enrico Murru

Overview of this book

Low-code platforms allow users to focus on business logic to create solutions without getting trapped in programming complexities. Thanks to its powerful features for designing, developing, and deploying apps without having to hand-code, Salesforce is at the forefront of the low-code development revolution. This book will guide you in building creative applications for solving your business problems using the declarative framework provided by Salesforce. You’ll start by learning how to design your business data model with custom objects, fields, formulas, and validation rules, all secured by the Salesforce security model. You’ll then explore tools such as Workflow, Process Builder, Lightning Flow, and Actions that will help you to automate your business processes with ease. This book also shows you how to use Lightning App Builder to build personalized UIs for your Salesforce applications, explains the value of creating community pages for your organization, and teaches you how to customize them with Experience Builder. Finally, you'll work with the sandbox model, deploy your solutions, and deliver an effective release management strategy. By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be ready to customize Salesforce CRM to meet your business requirements by creating unique solutions without writing a single line of code.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
1
Section 1: What Is Salesforce?
3
Section 2: Data Modeling
9
Section 3: Automation Tools
15
Section 4: Composing the User Interface
19
Section 5: Data Management
22
Section 6: Ready to Release?
25
Section 7: Before We Say Goodbye

Chapter 13: The Lightning App Builder

In Chapter 12, All About Layouts, we saw how to configure record-related layouts with pure point-and-click actions, and how to assign them to your users. Let's now go a step further.

What if we want to customize a generic page to be added to a Salesforce app or change any record-related page to add more components to increase the amount of data or even to remove components to simplify it?

We can do this with Lightning App Builder, a visual and powerful tool to create and customize Lightning pages and Lightning apps, both for desktop and mobile.

By the end of this chapter, we'll be familiar with the following:

  • Using the Lightning App Builder

  • Building Lightning pages and apps

  • Assigning pages and apps to profiles