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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Leveraging the Salesforce standard UIs


Salesforce puts a lot of effort into its desktop and mobile based UIs. These declarative UIs are the first to see advancements, such as the ability to embed reporting charts. These standard user interfaces are also the primary method by which your subscribers will customize your application's appearance. Furthermore, the UI will evolve with Salesforce's frequent updates. In some cases, new features are available to your users, even without you updating your application.

Tip

In general, aspects of your application that had already leveraged the standard UI in Salesforce Classic will just work fine in Lightning Experience without change, and will also automatically adopt the new look and feel. However, if you have utilized Visualforce extensively, and/or used unsupported features such as JavaScript Custom Buttons, you will have to make some changes. Carefully test and explore your application in Lightning Experience to understand what changes you need to...