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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

Creating Lightning pages

To create a new page from scratch, we can click the + New Page link on the Pages menu of the Lightning App Builder header or click the New button on the Lightning App Builder's Setup page.

The Lightning page creation wizard starts by asking which kind of page you want to create:

Figure 13.14 – Lightning page type selection

What kind of page do we need?

  • App Page: This kind of page is supported on both the Lightning Experience desktop site and the Salesforce mobile app. App pages are usually used to create custom home page apps that can be accessed anywhere and offer quick access to the most important features, objects, and actions, Indeed, you can add global actions to the page.

  • Home Page: This kind of page is supported on the Lightning Experience desktop site only (so not on mobile) and is used as a home page on Salesforce desktop apps. They don't support global action selection (you'll see all global...