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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Force.com Enterprise Architecture Blend industry best practices to architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172994
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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. Providing Integration and Extensibility 10. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 11. Source Control and Continuous Integration Index

Leveraging the Salesforce standard UI


Salesforce puts a lot of effort into its desktop and Salesforce1-based mobile UI. These declarative UIs are the first to see advancements, one recent example being the ability to embed reporting charts. These standard user interfaces are also the primary method by which your subscribers will customize your application's appearance. Furthermore, with Salesforce's frequent updates, the UI will evolve even without you updating and releasing changes to your application.

For these reasons, you should ensure that, for all objects in your application, you make the best use of the standard UI by ensuring that your packaged layouts are highly polished and make use of every last drop of declarative features. It is even worth considering this practice for those objects that might be typically accessed through Visualforce pages. Considering the standard UI as a kind of primary or default UI also ensures that the validation in your Domain classes is complete, which...

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