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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

Formula limits

The main limitation on formulas, that is, the first limit you encounter when you'll be building complex formulas, is the number of characters a formula can contain which, as of Summer '20, is set to 3,900 characters including spaces, line breaks, and comments.

Tip

If you need more formula space, create a separate formula field and chain it in another formula.

Another important limit is that a formula can only show a maximum of 13,000 characters (so you are not allowed to output bigger text content).

When a formula is saved, it is converted into a compiled format, which must not exceed 4,000 bytes and when it is actually compiled (by adding any other related formula), it cannot exceed 5,000 bytes: there is no direct correlation between the formula size and its saved or compiled size in bytes.

Moreover, remember that you cannot reference more than 15 objects in cross-object formulas for a given object, that is, you cannot link more than 15 object...