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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

Creating a Force.com custom application

When we are building an application using a client-server architecture, first we need to build the project and then we build the other components (such as classes and pages) within that project. Therefore, the project acts as the boundary of the application. Like a programming project, an application of the Force.com platform is a logical container for all of the objects, tabs, processes, and services associated with a given business function. A Force.com custom application consists of a name, a description, an ordered list of tabs, and optionally, a custom logo and a landing page. Therefore, a Force.com application can group different tabs and objects together to form a single business requirement. Users can switch between apps using the Force.com app drop-down menu at the top-right corner of every page.

Salesforce provides standard Sales apps such as Call Center, Marketing, and Community, among others. The following screenshot indicates the standard...

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