Mastering Application Development With Force Com

Mastering Application Development with Force.com

Design and develop state-of-the-art applications using Force.com's powerful development platform About This Book Flaunt your skillsets by developing complex applications that include demanding concepts such as triggers, Visualforce controllers, batch jobs, and Lightning components Earn the gratitude of your colleagues by structuring a project so that multiple developers can work independently of each other Kevin Poorman, the author of the book and a Force.com MVP, shares his years of Force.com knowledge and experience with you through the medium of telling examples Who This Book Is For If you're a Force.com developer with a fundamental understanding of Apex and JavaScript but now want to enhance your skills with tips, tricks, and guidance on the best architectural and engineering practices, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn Creating triggers, and the best practices for writing them Developing a number of Visualforce controllers and extensions Integrating third-party web APIs into your Apex code Writing unit tests that cover testing bulk safety, user and profile settings, and negative tests Creating a Lightning component for use in Salesforce1 Getting acquainted with various methods for deploying metadata between orgs Using the Rest sObject API for access to Salesforce objects and data using the REST methodology Learning about overarching architectural considerations such as naming conventions, testing practices, and data modeling practices In Detail Force.com is an extremely powerful, scalable, and secure cloud platform, delivering a complete technology stack, ranging from databases and security to workflow and the user interface. With salesforce.com's Force.com cloud platform, you can build any business application and run it on your servers. The book will help you enhance your skillset and develop complex applications using Force.com. It gets you started with a quick refresher of Force.com's development tools and methodologies, and moves to an in-depth discussion of triggers, bulkification, DML order of operations, and trigger frameworks. Next, you will learn to use batchable and schedulable interfaces to process massive amounts of information asynchronously. You will also be introduced to Salesforce Lightning and cover components—including backend (apex) controllers, frontend (JavaScript) controllers, events, and attributes—in detail. Moving on, the book will focus on testing various apex components: what to test, when to write the tests, and—most importantly—how to test. Next, you will develop a changeset and use it to migrate your code from one org to another, and learn what other tools are out there for deploying metadata. You will also use command-line tools to authenticate and access the Force.com Rest sObject API and the Bulk sObject API; additionally, you will write a custom Rest endpoint, and learn how to structure a project so that multiple developers can work independently of each other without causing metadata conflicts. Finally, you will take an in-depth look at the overarching best practices for architecture (structure) and engineering (code) applications on the Force.com platform. Style and approach A step-by-step tutorial, with plenty of tips and tricks that will help you develop complex Force.com applications.

Mastering Application Development with Force.com

Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder

Click your way to automating various business processes using Salesforce Visual Workflow About This Book Develop an application using Point and Click with the help of Flow Get to grips with various ways to launch a Flow Capture data from an external user without using the Visualforce page Save user input into the database, and learn how to query and manipulate the data Discover various ways to debug and deploy Flow and Process Builder Understand the concepts of Subflow and Login Flow Handle complex business processes using Process builder and keep them clean Use existing or new Flows to work with Salesforce Lightning Experience. Who This Book Is For This book is intended for those who want to use Flows to automate their business requirements by clicking, not coding. No previous experience in computer coding or programming is required What You Will Learn Develop an application using point and click with the help of Flow Get to grips with various ways to launch a Flow Capture data from an external user without using the Visualforce page Save user input into the database, and learn how to query and manipulate the data Discover various ways to debug and deploy Flow and Process Builder Understand the concepts of Subflow and Login Flow Handle complex business processes using Process builder and keep them clean Use existing or new Flows to work with Salesforce Lightning Experience. In Detail Salesforce Management System is an information system used in CRM to automate the business processes like sales and marketing. To implement this, Force.com developed a powerful tool called Visual Workflow to automate business processes by creating applications also called Flows. Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow, Second Edition is a practical guide on Flows that will enable you to develop custom applications in Salesforce with minimized code usage. The book starts with an introduction to Visual Workflows that teaches all the building blocks of creating Flows and use it efficiently. You will learn how to easily automate business processes and tackle complex business scenarios using Flows. The book explains the working of the Process Builder so you can create reusable processes. The book also covers how you can integrate existing or newly created Flows with the Salesforce Lightening Experience. By the end of the book, you will get a clear understanding on how to use Flows and Process Builder in your organization to optimize code usage. Style and approach Step by step approch to use Process Builder to solve complex business requirements with the help of Flow