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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

You're reading from   Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition A must-read guide to help you architect and deliver packaged applications for enterprise needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619773
Length 712 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
2. Building and Publishing Your Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Leveraging Platform Features 4. Application Storage 5. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns 6. Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
7. Application Service Layer 8. Application Domain Layer 9. Application Selector Layer 10. Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services 11. Part III: Developing the Frontend
12. Building User Interfaces 13. User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework 14. Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
15. Providing Integration and Extensibility 16. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 17. Unit Testing 18. Source Control and Continuous Integration 19. Integrating with External Services 20. Adding AI with Einstein 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Flow

Salesforce has historically provided several declarative tools to implement business processes and custom user experiences, such as Workflow and Process Builder. Flow is now the recommended tool by Salesforce for all such automation. End user operations such as creating, updating, or starting an approval process for a record can be customized using Flow. When you need to implement a web-based experience that provides a wizard- or interview-style user experience, you can also use the Flow tool. Flow can be used to define complex conditional business processes that need to read and update records. Automation flows, sometimes referred to as “headless Flows,” are Flows that do not interact with the user and can also be called from within Apex code.

Flow lets you build engaging UIs but has its limits since it is not a programming language in a traditional sense. This does not mean, however, that if you or your users hit a roadblock you have to abandon it....

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