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Learning Force.com Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Force.com Application Development Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172796
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chamil Madusanka Chamil Madusanka
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Force.com FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Data Model 3. Building the User Interface 4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data 5. Implementing Business Processes 6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform 7. Custom Coding with Apex 8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce 9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform 10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform 11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites 12. Deploying the Force.com Application A. Force.com Tools Index

Data tools

Tools that are used to manipulate data in a particular organization are categorized as Data tools.

Force.com Data Loader: Data Loader is a client application for the bulk import or export of data. It is used to insert, update, delete, or extract Salesforce.com records. The Apex Data Loader can move data in or out of any type of Salesforce.com record, including opportunities and custom objects. When importing data, it reads, extracts, and loads data from comma-separated values (CSV) files. When exporting data, it outputs CSV files.

The Force.com API is required to perform operations in Data Loader. A wizard interface that is easy to use and an alternative command-line interface are available in Data Loader. It is a support for all the custom and standard objects and it provides detailed success and error log files after every functionality. You can download the Data Loader from Setup | Administer | Data Management. More details about the Data Loader can be found at https://developer...

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