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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

FormulaForce Lightning Components


In designing the Lightning Components for the FormulaForce sample application contained in this book, I wanted to try to demonstrate some key integration points within the Salesforce UIs, while also ensuring the use cases fit with the application domain.

I focused on Lightning Experience and Salesforce1 Mobile. It is also good practice to think platform-first, before embarking on any extensive development. I started with the following use cases and then devised a set of components to deliver the functionality.

  • Race Overview: while the standalone Lightning Application we looked at earlier was a good means to get started with the components, it's not a Salesforce integrated solution. What I wanted to do was integrate the Lightning Experience Home Page, through the Lightning App Builder customization tool. Not only to show the overall standings (leaderboard), but to allow users to filter information through the race calendar to show the results from each completed...