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Hands-On Low-Code Application Development with Salesforce

By : Enrico Murru
Book Image

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

Summary

If you have read this chapter, you have acquired the principles of Salesforce CRM customization and you are ready to release your first implementation to production. Within this chapter, we have shown how changes in metadata can be safely built and tested on dedicated sandbox orgs. We have seen how to create a sandbox and how to manage it, using clone, refresh, discard, and delete actions. We have discovered the different types of sandbox available on the platform and their features and best uses. We've also understood the principles behind Salesforce releases and how major releases are related to sandbox preview mode.

Finally, we have seen an example of sandbox architecture to cover all the main release process management needs, from development to testing.

From now on, you know the basics of sandbox management and sandbox architecture setup, adapting your project needs to your project's (sometimes unique) release management strategy.

In the next chapter...