Building Applications with Force.com

Designing Applications on Force.com

• Data Model and Navigation
• Help & Training
• Learn about factors to consider when building a data model
• Develop custom objects and fields, encrypted fields, field help,field history tracking
• Use master-detail, lookup, and many-to-many relationships
• Create a user interface for custom applications using the custom object tab, page layout, and customization options
• Set field attributes on the page layout
• Use custom object queues and event-based workflow rules with field update actions
• Develop custom formulas and validation rules

Designing Applications for Multiple Users

• Learn about factors to consider when designing applications for multiple users
• Create profiles, understand what a profile controls (including data access),and customize profiles to manage the user experience
• Create and customize permission sets to manage the user experience
• Customize the user experience with record types and page layouts
• Control access to records
• Employ organization-wide defaults (OWDs), sharing rules and levels, roles, public groups, and manual share
• Apply profiles, OWDs, role hierarchy, and sharing to restrict access to sensitive data
• Apply OWDs, public groups, and manual sharing to create conditional access to data
• Analyze suitability of field-level security, page layouts, and record types to satisfy business requirements

Implementing Business Processes

• Use the VLOOKUP, REGEX, ISCHANGED, ISNEW, and PRIORVALUE functions to build business processes
• Use validation rules to enforce conditional required behavior
• Use functions to enforce data format and data consistency
• Implement multi-step approval workflows and escalations to automate business processes
• Create parallel approval processes and approval processes with dynamic approval routing
• Use outbound messages as part of an approval process
• Establish approval process criteria with cross-object formulas
• Set up field history tracking to audit processes
• Learn techniques to prevent or record data changes

Managing Data

• Learn when and how to use upsert
• Use data management tools and the capabilities of API-based tools.
• Use the Force.com data loader to create mapping files and to upsert data

Force.com Pages

• Learn about the capabilities of Force.com pages
• Incorporate Force.com pages into Salesforce CRM
• Construct expression bindings and incorporate Salesforce CRM into Force.com pages with components
• Use Force.com pages components to create page layouts, input forms, output tables, custom components, and more
• Create partial page refreshes on JavaScript events
• Learn about the functionality that comes with Force.com pages standard controllers
• Find out when Force.com code is required for creating custom controllers or extensions