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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

Chapter 17: The Sandbox Model

Throughout this book, we have played with Salesforce platform features using a Developer Edition org, but you'll likely work as a Salesforce administrator or developer in a more complex context, where a production org contains all business data and current (and stable) platform customization, while all new changes or bug fixes will be done on separate environments to safely develop and test those new metadata changes (we defined the metadata concept in Chapter 1, A Brief Introduction to Salesforce, when describing the Salesforce platform architecture).

That's why it's fundamental that you learn all about sandboxes, a special kind of Salesforce org strictly related to your company/customer production org, where you can, as the name implies, play with platform features without harming anyone.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • What a sandbox is and what types are available

  • Managing sandboxes

  • How...