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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

Customizing with Experience Builder

In this section, we are going to learn about Experience Builder. We will also learn about how to add, manage its components, and build amazing pages for our community.

To customize your current community template, you need to access the Experience Builder tool from Workspaces | Builder:

Figure 14.27 – Experience Builder in action

As you can see from the preceding screenshot, these are all your available options:

  1. Drag and drop Lightning components on the underlying page, choosing from standard (built-in with your org), custom (built by your devs within your org), or custom from the AppExchange (installed from packages).

  2. Change the template's theme to match your company's branding rules.

  3. Navigate the page structure to see which components have been added.

  4. Navigate through the community settings (such as public access, security features, and updates).

  5. Access all the pages and their...