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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

Defining data validation

Data validation is crucial for your business: if data is misaligned, dirty, or simply missing key pieces, it can rapidly become useless and even dangerous for your business. Would you drive a car without the lights on? I don't think so.

That's why the Salesforce platform delivers different ways to provide data validation on your CRM. Here, I cite the most often used methods of data validation:

  • Field type built-in validation

  • Field marked as required

  • Validation rules

  • Apex triggers / Lightning components

    Note

    Apex triggers give you the most freedom in defining validation criteria on record creation/update, bringing automation to the next level: it requires strong Apex coding skills though. The same applies to Lightning components, which are used to build user interfaces to deliver highly customized user experiences.

    Further reading

    We won't cover Apex triggers in this book (as this is a pure coding topic) but if you come from...