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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

What is a data model?

As you may already know, the business world revolves around information: the more data a company has, the more chance it has of enhancing its business and, thus, being more effective in the market.

But data is nothing without control, and a proper structure that makes data easy to read and understand. That's where the term model comes in: a data model is a structured way of storing data in an application, whether it is a desktop app, a web portal, a spreadsheet, a text file, or our beloved Salesforce CRM.

Again, data and data models need to be properly viewed and modified: all of this is represented by the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern, which is a way to separate the concerns or to avoid mixing the data, the business logic that handles data changes, and the artifacts used to display that data. This pattern can be pictured as follows:

Figure 2.1 – Representation of the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern

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