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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

Running and debugging

We've already seen how to run a flow. You can also use the Debug button to run the flow with a debugging panel and see what happens to resources during the flow execution:

Figure 10.30 – Debugging a flow

If an unexpected error occurs to your flow, you'll receive a mail notification with the details of the error:

Figure 10.31 – Example of email notification upon flow error

You can configure error email notifications to be sent to specific system users and not to the user who is running the flow (who may not be a technical person). To do so, click on Setup | Process Automation | Process Automation Settings:

Figure 10.32 – Configuring error email notifications for automation processes

I suggest setting it to Apex Exception Email Recipients (which can be configured from Setup | Email | Apex Exception Email).

Now that we know how to build and debug a flow, let...