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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

Chapter 18: Deploying Your Solution

As we've seen in Chapter 17, The Sandbox Model, you'll be implementing any Salesforce customization inside a dedicated org, called a sandbox, to avoid impacting on the production org directly, where the business runs. Once you are confident that what you have configured complies with the business requirements you've been tasked with, we can employ different ways and strategies to move the changes into the next sandbox (for user acceptance testing, or UAT) or in production.

You may also be asked to develop a completely separate feature that has no link with your production org, and so you can use a Developer Edition org for the implementation phase, and then move this package to a sandbox or even production (this is not suggested at all; test any customization in a sandbox prior to releasing to production!).

In this chapter, we'll focus on the following most common ways to do this job:

  • By using change sets to move...