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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce makes architecting enterprise grade applications easy and secure – but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as separation of concerns, unit testing, and dependency injection. You'll also get to grips with Apex and fflib, create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring asynchronous processing features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how the Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
6
Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
11
Part III: Developing the Frontend
14
Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
21
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Index

Custom report UIs 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 it has defined the report appeals 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 to your client code to be rendered accordingly. The API is available directly to Apex developers and as a REST API for native mobile applications.

Apex has an API to invoke a report and retrieve the results. As such, 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 Builder as a kind of record selection UI.