You're reading from Hands-On Low-Code Application Development with Salesforce Build customized CRM applications that solve business challenges in just a few clicks

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209770

Length 608 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Enrico Murru

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: What Is Salesforce?

2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Salesforce FREE CHAPTER

3. Section 2: Data Modeling

4. Chapter 2: Building the Data Model

5. Chapter 3: Mastering Formulas

6. Chapter 4: Cleaning Data with Validation Rules

7. Chapter 5: Handling Dynamic Configuration

8. Chapter 6: Security First – The "Who Sees What" Paradigm

9. Section 3: Automation Tools

10. Chapter 7: Be a Workflow Champion

11. Chapter 8: Setting Up Approval Processes

12. Chapter 9: Process Builder – Workflow Evolution

13. Chapter 10: Designing Lightning Flows

14. Chapter 11: Interacting with Actions

15. Section 4: Composing the User Interface

16. Chapter 12: All about Layouts

17. Chapter 13: The Lightning App Builder

18. Chapter 14: Leveraging Customers and Partners Power with Communities

19. Section 5: Data Management

20. Chapter 15: Importing and Exporting Data Declaratively

21. Chapter 16: Learning about Data Reporting

22. Section 6: Ready to Release?

23. Chapter 17: The Sandbox Model

24. Chapter 18: Deploying Your Solution

25. Section 7: Before We Say Goodbye

26. Chapter 19: Salesforce Ohana – The Most Amazing Community Around

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What is a sandbox?

When talking about testing, I love to mention a popular meme among developers relating to the almighty Chuck Norris that states the following:

Figure 17.1 – A popular and funny meme about testing in production environments

Although this is funny and sometimes it may seem, with the power of inexperience, the easiest choice, this is not a good philosophy at all!

Developing your customizations and testing them in a dedicated and safe org is the key to delivering good software, be it a bugfix or a complex 6-month project.

The main characteristic of a sandbox is that they are a (more or less) complete copy of production, regarding metadata data and data: the level of similarity with production depends on the kind of sandbox we choose.

Sandboxes prove to be helpful in a variety of situations, including the following: