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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

Managing sandboxes

Once created, you can manage the sandboxes from the production org using a selection of actions available from the sandboxes list page.

On the Action column of the sandbox list page, you can do all sort of actions to manage a sandbox with a simple link for each action, aside from creating a new one:

  • The first is the Log In action, which simply opens up a new tab with the sandbox's login page. This doesn't automatically log in to the org; you need to insert the right credentials (think of it as a shortcut).

  • The Clone action lets you clone a sandbox, creating a new sandbox with the same sandbox type and all the metadata and data. This is available only if you have enough free sandbox slots available.

  • The Refresh action is needed if you want to reset the sandbox and recreate it from the same source org (that is, production or the parent sandbox, if you created it with the Clone action). The current sandbox version is still available during...