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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

Creating and managing a community

This section will cover how to create and manage a community. We will also learn about the different community templates. We will then learn about the self-registration option. We'll see how to configure a community and see a community in action with self-registration.

Before starting to create a community, make sure your org has at least one community license (example on a Developer Edition org, shown as follows):

Figure 14.1 – Looking for Salesforce community licenses

The previous screenshot shows that the current org has at least two kinds of community licenses, the Customer Community Login and Customer Community Plus licenses. If you don't have a community user license, you won't be able to create any community at all.

Further reading

For a complete list of all available community user licenses, refer to Salesforce Help at https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=users_license_types_communities...