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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 sandbox?

When talking about testing, I love to mention a popular meme among developers relating to the almighty Chuck Norris that states the following:

Figure 17.1 – A popular and funny meme about testing in production environments

Although this is funny and sometimes it may seem, with the power of inexperience, the easiest choice, this is not a good philosophy at all!

Developing your customizations and testing them in a dedicated and safe org is the key to delivering good software, be it a bugfix or a complex 6-month project.

The main characteristic of a sandbox is that they are a (more or less) complete copy of production, regarding metadata data and data: the level of similarity with production depends on the kind of sandbox we choose.

Sandboxes prove to be helpful in a variety of situations, including the following:

  • They create an isolated environment where you can develop code, with no risk to production data and business...