Salesforce: Building Apps with Force.com

Course:   SF01
Duration:   5 Days
Level:   I
On our website at:   http://www.verhoef-training.com/courses/SF01.html
 
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. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

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.

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

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.

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

Comprehensive hands-on course

Related Courses
Code Course Title Duration Level
SF02
Salesforce: Enhancing Apps with Apex and Visualforce
5 Days
I
Details

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