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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning provides a secure and scalable platform to build, deploy, customize, and upgrade applications. This book will take you through the architecture of building an application on the Lightning platform to help you understand its features and best practices, and ensure that your app keeps up with your customers’ increasing needs as well as the innovations on the platform. This book guides you in working with the popular aPaaS offering from Salesforce, the Lightning Platform. You’ll see how to build and ship enterprise-grade apps that not only leverage the platform's many productivity features, but also prepare your app to harness its extensibility and customization capabilities. You'll even get to grips with advanced application architectural design patterns such as Separation of Concerns, Unit Testing and Dependency Integration. You will learn to use Apex and JavaScript with Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, among others, with the help of a sample app illustrating patterns that will ensure your own applications endure and evolve with the platform. Finally, you will become familiar with using Salesforce DX to develop, publish, and monitor a sample app and experience standard application life cycle processes along with tools such as Jenkins to implement CI/CD. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to develop effective business apps and be ready to explore innovative ways to meet customer demands.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Custom reporting and the Analytics API

Sometimes, the standard output from the Salesforce Reporting engine is just not what your users are looking for. They require formatting or a layout not supported by Salesforce, but the way in which they have defined the report is appealing to them.

The Salesforce Analytics API allows you to build a Visualforce page or mobile application that can execute a given tabular, summary, or matrix report and return its data into your client code to be rendered accordingly. The API is available directly to Apex developers and as a REST API for native mobile applications.

You might want to consider using a report to drive an alternative approach to selecting records for an additional process in your application by leveraging the flexibility of the Report Designer as a kind of record selection UI.