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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

What is Process Builder?

Process Builder is a modern way to implement state machines using the If This Then That (IFTTT) paradigm, with a rich user interface that allows any devmin to exactly understand how the automated process is shaped at a glance.

Just as we did with Workflow Rules, select a Salesforce object, define the trigger criteria, and set up the actions you want to execute in order to create a brand new automation.

Unlike Workflow Rules, you can define the order in which actions are executed, while in workflows, you cannot predict which action will be executed first.

Another difference is that Process Builder can deliver automation not only for Salesforce objects but also for Platform Events (which are a special kind of Salesforce object used to send events back and forth inside and outside the platform that we won't cover in this book).

Further reading

For more info about Platform Events, have a look at the Platform Events Basics Trailhead module at...