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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

Enhancing Salesforce objects with custom fields

Like Salesforce objects, the platform offers standard and custom fields, which are fields that are part of the Salesforce data model, and fields that can be created from scratch on any Salesforce object to increase the amount of data included in a single object, respectively.

Let's see an example by opening the Account page from Setup | Object Manager | Account | Fields & Relationships:

Figure 2.19 – Account fields list

Do you see something strange?

There is a field whose FIELD NAME (or API Name) ends with __c: this is a custom field that has been created by Salesforce on the developer org that you can delete without any problem. There are also other standard fields, which relate to how Salesforce modeled the account object (for example, Source, Addresses, Number, and so on).

Further reading

For a complete list of all available standard fields for standard objects, refer to Salesforce...