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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

Design considerations

Before we commence with building an application on any platform, we need to architect the application first. Therefore, when you design an application on the Force.com platform, you must consider the following facts:

  • You must know about the actors or users of the particular application. In a real-world scenario, an application can have many users. Therefore, your application must accommodate each and every user or actor in your application. In our leave management application, there are four types of users such as System admin, Employee, Manager, and Human Resources user (HR User). We need to add every type of user in our organization.
  • You need to identify the access that every type of user will have to the data in the system. More importantly, which user can access the particular data and what will these users expect to see and do? In this case, you need to identify the data and the functionality restrictions for the particular users. In the leave management application...
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