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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

Moving metadata

Moving new or changed customizations from org to org (from your development sandbox to an internal test sandbox, or from the UAT sandbox to production org) can be an easy experience if you know exactly what you are doing and have sufficient experience to anticipate anything that can block the deploy process, or it may prove to be a source of headaches if you are still learning the art.

Tens of things can go bad, from a missing custom field (you forgot to include a small piece of metadata in your deploy package), to failing Apex tests (we haven't talked about Apex coding, but let's say that Apex tests are a way for the platform to let you think about what you are doing, by forcing developers to write Apex code to test their Apex code), to mystery error messages that only an in-depth Google search or a thousand hours spent doing deployments can hopefully solve.

There are different ways and tools to move changes between orgs:

  • Change sets: These...