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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

Summary

This chapter concludes the technical part of this long journey. We have learned a lot about Salesforce platform customization and, with this chapter, we acquired the basics for deploying the changes we make in our daily work in the orgs of our company or those of our customers. With change sets, we learned how to move changes from one sandbox to another, and from a sandbox to production, creating deploy connections between orgs that rely on the same production org. If we want to deploy across orgs that don't reference the same production org (for example, between Developer Edition orgs) or simply if we want to package a configuration that we want to store for future use, packages are what you need. Finally, we used packages with the Workbench tool to let Metadata APIs retrieve a package from an org and deploy it in another org with a few simple clicks.

You now have everything you need to bring your customizations from org to org within your new Salesforce project where...