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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

Activating Lightning pages

Before a page can be used, you need to activate it, and you have precisely three kinds of options to activate:

  • Make it the default home page across the org.

  • Make it the default home page only for specific apps.

  • Assign it to specific apps and profiles.

This is true for home Lightning pages, and we choose to select Home Page Default as the default org page (this is what we configured in Chapter 12, All About Layouts, when configuring the Flow component):

Figure 13.35 – Home page default set as the org's home default

When dealing with app Lightning pages, the page is a standalone page, meaning it can't be marked as default, as seen on the home type page.

The app is regarded as a custom tab that can be added, if needed, to other Salesforce apps or to the mobile navigation configuration. Any other profile-based configuration must be done via profiles or permission set configuration. This is what...