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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

Summary

In this chapter, we've learned all about Process Builder and how to build flows to enhance our business process automations with more possibilities than the ones provided by workflow rules, such as cross-object criteria definitions, record creation, different ways to send notifications with email alerts, Chatter posts and custom notifications, automatic approval process execution, parent and child record updates, and even triggering invocable processes to simplify our process management.

Except for Lightning Flows, which we'll be covering in the next chapter, Process Builder grants advanced automation features have been explained in this chapter. With Process Builder, you should be able to implement most process automation scenarios. Experience and deep knowledge of all available tools will make you aware of the best uses for Process Builder in your daily work as a Salesforce devmin. In the next chapter, we'll have a look at another tool to build even more...