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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

Summary

With Lightning App Builder, any Salesforce page can be customized to create a better and more productive view of your data across apps and objects.

We've seen how the tool is shaped and the way it can be used to customize the layout of any Salesforce application's page, by creating home, app, and record Lightning pages.

Each page can then be created from a specific template, which defines the available places (or regions) where components can be placed; once the correct template is selected, the administrator can add standard or custom components to the page and configure their properties to make the page work as needed by the business, user interface, and user experience requirements.

With page filters, it is possible to define the visibility of components within the page, based on permissions, user fields, form factors and, when available, current record fields.

Finally, we saw how to activate a page so that it is available for our users.

In the...