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Salesforce.com customization handbook

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Salesforce.com customization handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Salesforce.com Customization Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Streamlining a business process


Salesforce comes with many standard objects, but if your requirement is not fulfilled by using them, you can go ahead and create custom objects.

Creating a custom object

In Salesforce, database tables are treated as objects. These objects have fields, and any type of app that is built in Salesforce relies on it. We will now be developing a sample Event Management app for the company Appiuss that is going to organize an event for women and child welfare, where companies across the globe will be able to set up their booths to market themselves. This will allow local communities or people to participate in events for free, and the companies will sponsor this event. We will be building the following database model throughout the book from now on:

The Event object will have a one-to-many relationship with the Event Registration object, and the Sponsor object will have a one-to-many relationship with the Booth Registration object. The Booth Registration object works...