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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)
1
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

Record relationships

A relationship is formed by a Lookup field being created from one object to another, often referred to as a parent and child relationship. There are two types of relationships in Salesforce: Master-Detail and Lookup.

Custom Metadata Type objects only support lookup relationships to other Custom Metadata Type objects or other Custom Object or Custom Field metadata. Some features described in this section only apply to Custom Objects, such as lookup filters and referential integrity. Custom Setting objects do not support any form of record relationships.

In some aspects, these types of relationships share similarities in how they are referenced when using SOQL and Apex and how they are input through the user interface (such as Lookup filters described in the previous chapter). However, there are different limits depending on the referential integrity features that you use. You should keep these in mind when defining your own object model within...