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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

Understanding sandbox architectures

You can use different sandbox types for different release stages. There is no mandatory configuration setup. You can use a Full type sandbox to execute your development phase, although it makes no sense at all (really high license pricing being one of the main reasons).

Let's picture an example of how you can design the environment strategy within your project's release strategy.

Consider the following sandbox architecture, which can be applied to most projects:

Figure 17.11 – Example org strategy

In this figure, Production is the only org that is not a sandbox.

We can start with two sandboxes, Dev1 and Dev2, which can be of the Developer type, and are assigned to two different developers/administrators or for two different implementations that may be unrelated.

Once developers have completed their job (meaning that the implementation is stable), the changes can be brought to the Integration sandbox...