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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 custom tabs

A tab is the main way to access the objects and Visualforce pages in the application. Without the tab, you will not be able to see object records. The tabs are positioned at the top of the page. You can create new custom tabs to extend Salesforce.com functionality or to build new application functionality. The tabs of standard objects are already defined by Salesforce.com. Therefore, we cannot edit or add standard object tabs. But we can hide or show the particular standard object tab to any custom application. When we come to adding tabs, we can create custom tabs in the Force.com platform. There are three types of custom tabs in the Force.com platform:

  1. Custom object tabs
  2. Visualforce tabs
  3. The Web tab

Custom object tabs

These are the user interface for the custom application that you build in the Force.com platform. The look and feel of a custom object tab is similar to the standard tabs provided by Salesforce.com (such as accounts, contacts, and opportunities). These tabs...

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