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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Force.com Enterprise Architecture Architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463685
Length 504 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Leveraging Platform Features 3. Application Storage 4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns 5. Application Service Layer 6. Application Domain Layer 7. Application Selector Layer 8. User Interface 9. Lightning 10. Providing Integration and Extensibility 11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 12. Unit Testing 13. Source Control and Continuous Integration Index

Understanding the custom field features


Custom fields carry many more features than you might think; they are much more than simple field definitions you find on other platforms. Having a good understanding of a custom field is the key to reducing the amount of code you have to write and improving the user experience and reporting of your application's data.

Default field values

Adding default values to your fields improves the usability of your application and can reduce the number of fields needed on the screen, as users can remove fields with acceptable defaults from the layouts.

Default values defined on custom fields apply in the native user interfaces and Visualforce UIs (providing the apex:inputField component is used) and in some cases, through the APIs. You can define a default value based on a formula using either literal values and/or variables such as $User, $Organization, and $Setup.

Let's try this out. Create a Year text field on the Season object as per the following screenshot...

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