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Hands-On Low-Code Application Development with Salesforce

By : Enrico Murru
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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

Meeting the Lightning App Builder

The Lightning App Builder is a point-and-click tool that lets you create a custom home page, record page, and an app page for the Salesforce Lightning Experience desktop and mobile sites, bringing the power of standard and custom Lightning components into the hands of any Salesforce administrator.

You can customize an Opportunity record page to include a custom Lightning component developed by your developers to ask an external shipping system to track a shipment, or customize the service app's home page to include a custom component acquired from the AppExchange.

We've seen in Chapter 10, Designing Lightning Flows, that we can nest flows in Salesforce Lightning pages (we used the customer support flow in our Lightning app's home page). To do this, we have to use the Flow component (one of the many standard components available), configure it to select the Lightning flow we created, and place it where we want it to be shown to...