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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 a community?

In my (more than 10 years) experience in the Salesforce ecosystem, I've been asked "What is a community?" more than once, mostly in the early days when communities were a new tool.

I usually answer by saying that Salesforce Communities allow any company to get in touch with customers, partners, and even employees, creating a collaborative place where Salesforce data can be reliably and securely accessed.

With Communities, you can create a strong link with your business partners to empower your business (suppliers, resellers, technicians), strengthen customer care with an easy place to find solutions to common issues, and get in touch with your employees to increase Salesforce adoption and collaboration.

A community is a public portal where internal and external users (we've talked about external users in Chapter 6, Security First – the "Who Sees What" Paradigm, when talking about Organization-Wide Default (OWD) sharing...