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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

Managing reports

Before closing, let's spend some time on report management.

In the previous section, we saw how to create a new report. But is there a way to share a report with specific users?

The answer is yes – by using folders. Thanks to report folders, we can perform the same containment actions we perform on files on our laptops; that is, we create a folder, put one or more reports in it, and our reports are well organized. You can even configure sharing for each folder to enable different kinds of users to access the reports.

Managing folders

Reports are saved by default in the Private Reports folder, which is accessible to owners only. If you want to make it available to other users, you need to use folders.

To create a new folder, do the following:

  1. Click on App Launcher | Reports.

  2. Click the New Folder button.

  3. On the form that opens, enter the folder's name.

The new folder will be listed in the All Folders section:

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