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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Automating the business process using workflows

Workflow is a strong feature of the Force.com platform because it is used to automate business processes. This is the business logic engine of the Force.com platform that allows us to automate ending e-mail alerts, assigning tasks, updating a field value based on the defined rules. Workflows are associated with the particular objects. When the associated object's record is inserted or updated, and meets the conditions of the workflow rule, the platform automatically executes the actions defined in the rule. This is all about the automated actions in the Force.com platform and executes them when the right time/correct statuses are coming up. The following diagram presents the steps of a workflow.

Automating the business process using workflows

Each workflow rule consists of the following elements:

  • Criteria that cause the workflow rules to run.
  • Immediate actions that execute as soon as the record meets the criteria. For example, the Force.com platform can automatically send an e-mail that...
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