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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

Releasing with packages

Releasing with packages has some similarities with change sets, mostly in how packages are created, as we'll see shortly.

Packages can be used to deploy metadata from one org to any other org, whether related to the same production org or not. They can also be used to distribute metadata libraries (like open source customizations) or super-secret algorithms that other Salesforce customers or partners may need in their org and may pay for (in this case, you need to publish the package on the AppExchange).

Further reading

If you are interested in becoming a Salesforce ISV partner (and want to build apps on the AppExchange), complete the Build Apps as an AppExchange Partner Trailhead trail at https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/trails/isv_developer_beginner.

Also, note that the metadata files you see on this book's GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Low-Code-Application-Development-with-Salesforce...