Salesforce: Building Apps with Force.com

Course: SFFRC

Duration: 5 Days

Level: II

Course Summary

This comprehensive hands-on course teaches students how to use the declarative ("point and click") capabilities of the Force.com platform to create Salesforce applications.

This course provides the foundation for developers who need to know how to leverage these capabilities for rapid development, and to prepare for learning the use of Apex, Visualforce, and Visualforce page controllers in the follow-on advanced course, Salesforce: Enhancing Apps with Apex and Visualforce.

For the lab exercises, students will register for a free developer account with Salesforce.com.

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Topics Covered In This Course

Introducing the Force.com Platform

Cloud computing and PaaS
Force.com as a platform
Technologies behind a Force.com platform app
Basics of an application's user interface
Requesting a Salesforce Developer account

Creating the Application Data Model

Introduction to Salesforce objects
Difference between standard objects and custom objects
Creating custom objects
Creating custom fields
Using the Schema Builder to create and manage objects and fields

Creating the User Interface

Creating an app
Creating custom object tabs
Creating custom web tabs
Creating and customizing page layouts
Using page layouts to create, update, and delete object records
Concept of record types
Creating and using record types

Implementing Data Relationships

Implementing dependent picklists
Types of object relationships available in Salesforce
Implementing lookup fields
Implementing master-detail relationships
Using junction objects to implement many-to-many relationships

Data Management Tools

Issues that may affect importing data
Using the Data Import Wizard
Using the Data Export service
Using the Data Loader utility

Implementing Business Logic

Creating validation rules
Using Salesforce functions
Creating formula fields
Creating roll-up summary fields
Creating workflow rules
Creating assignment actions
Creating e-mail actions
Creating time-triggered workflows

Reporting and Analytics

Salesforce reporting environment
The difference between report types and reports
Creating and customizing report types
Creating tabular reports
Creating summary reports
Creating matrix reports
Creating joined reports
Using bucket fields to segment data
Using custom summary formulas to perform calculations on report data
Conditional highlighting
Adding charts to reports
Running, printing, and exporting reports
Scheduling reports
Subscribing to reports

Dashboards

Purpose of a dashboards
Creating, customizing, and implementing dashboards

Packaging and Distributing Apps

Techniques for deploying apps
Packages
- Concepts
- Creating, customizing, and uploading packages
Sandboxes
- Concepts
  - Deployment connections
  - Change sets
- Creating, customizing, and upload change sets

What You Can Expect

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

Build and customize multi-user cloud applications with just clicks.

Define the data model for an application.
Customize the user interface.
Manage application data.
Create validation rules, formula fields, and roll-up summary fields.
Automate business processes using workflow rules.
Create reports and dashboards.
Package and distribute applications.

Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for new application developers who want to create custom Force.com applications, or customize existing Salesforce applications.

Recommended Prerequisites

Previous experience in designing and coding application programs will enhance the results of this course.

Training Style

Instructor-led with hands-on workshops.

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Related Courses

Code	Course Title	Duration	Level
SFAPEX	Salesforce: Enhancing Apps with Apex and Visualforce	5 Days	II	Details

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