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ChatGPT for Accelerating Salesforce Development

By : Andy Forbes, Philip Safir, Joseph Kubon, Francisco Fálder
Book Image

ChatGPT for Accelerating Salesforce Development

By: Andy Forbes, Philip Safir, Joseph Kubon, Francisco Fálder

Overview of this book

ChatGPT for Salesforce Development is an indispensable guide for Salesforce business analysts, developers, testers, and product owners seeking to integrate ChatGPT into their workflow. This book delves into the intricacies of Salesforce design, configuration, coding, and testing, demonstrating how ChatGPT can simplify complex setups and enhance project team efficiency. With this book, you’ll unlock the effective use of ChatGPT for crafting user stories that align seamlessly with project goals, learn how to design and implement Salesforce flows, and quickly write clear, comprehensive, and high-quality project documentation. As you advance, you’ll leverage ChatGPT to write new Apex code, decipher existing code, and explore the development of web services and callouts. This book spans trigger creation and the development of Lightning Web Components (LWC), highlighting how these can accelerate the development process. Applying ChatGPT's debugging capabilities, you’ll swiftly identify and resolve Salesforce issues to uphold the integrity and performance of your Salesforce applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be adept at integrating ChatGPT at every stage of Salesforce project delivery, from initial configuration to final testing.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Salesforce Web Services

Salesforce Web Services expose custom logic via standard SOAP or REST protocols. They permit external systems to perform operations such as query, search, and CRUD operations directly on Salesforce data. These web services are defined in Apex code and can be customized to offer targeted functionalities. For instance, you might have a web service that triggers specific workflows or updates records based on complex business logic. The beauty of Salesforce Web Services lies in their ability to make the Salesforce platform extendable and open to various kinds of external interactions.

Web services in Salesforce enable different applications to communicate with each other over the web. They play a critical role in the interoperability and integration between Salesforce and other systems. Here are some of the core concepts:

  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): A protocol for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services. SOAP...