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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "What happens if the Sales department is renamed to, let's say, Sales Dept. and the Division to Huge Clients?"

A block of code is set as follows:

AND(
  OR(
    $User.Department != "Sales",
    $User.Division != "Big Customers"
  ),
  Amount > 500000
)

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

AND(
  OR(
    $User.Department != 
                  $Setup.Sales_Settings__c
                     .Sales_Department_Name__c,
    $User.Division != 
                  $Setup.Sales_Settings__c
                     .Big_Customers_Division__c
  ),
  Amount > $Setup.Sales_Settings__c.Amount_Threshold__c
)

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "To enable Salesforce communities, click on Setup | Feature Settings | Communities | Communities Settings and flag the Enable communities option."

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