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Learning Force.com Application Development
Learning Force.com Application Development

Learning Force.com Application Development: Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

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Learning Force.com Application Development

Chapter 2. Building the Data Model

In this chapter, the data model of the Force.com platform will be introduced, which explains about creating custom objects, custom fields, and various data types of the Force.com platform.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Creating objects
  • Creating custom fields

Before we start building the data model on the Force.com platform, we need to log into our organization using the login credentials specified in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Force.com. You will see the Force.com home page (or landing page) for developers and administrators after you have logged on:

Building the Data Model

The Force.com home page

Creating objects

We have already introduced our leave management application, which we will continue looking at in future chapters. In the previous chapter, we introduced the objects as one of the building blocks of the Force.com platform. An object is a container used to store particular object data in the Force.com platform. By creating an object, we can create user interfaces to add/edit/view the records of a particular object. With the creation of an object, the Force.com platform provides us the related user interfaces to add, edit, and view records of the particular object.

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Time saving feature

Create an object and gain a bunch of UI (standard pages) for various tasks such as add, edit, view, list view, and lookup view.

The objects of Salesforce.com have the following features:

  • Configurable
  • Relational
  • Reportable
  • Searchable
  • Securable

There are two types of objects on the Force.com platform:

  1. Standard Objects
  2. Custom objects

Standard objects

The Force.com platform comes with a set of standard objects...

Creating custom fields

We have successfully created the Employee object with the standard fields. According to the requirements, we need more fields to store various types of data values. In the preceding sections, you have learned that a Salesforce object is analogous to a database table, in the same way as the Salesforce standard/custom field is analogous to a database table column. Normally, a Database Management System (DBMS) has a set of data types for the database table columns. The Force.com platform also provides a set of data types to define custom fields of Salesforce custom objects and selected standard objects. The following two figures show us a few data types in the Force.com platform:

Creating custom fields

The set of data types of Force.com platform—set 1

Creating custom fields

The set of data types of Force.com platform—set 2

As you can see, we have a set of data types to create custom fields for a custom object or a standard object.

Let's explore the data types of the Force.com platform under the seven...

Summary

In this chapter, we got familiar with the data model of the Force.com platform. You have learned about standard and custom objects and have created custom objects according to our sample leave management application. We have discussed various kinds of data types available in the Force.com platform and you learned to create those various data type custom fields. Finally, you learnt the object relationship that is an important topic for building data models on the Force.com platform.

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If you are a developer who wants to learn how to develop and deploy applications from the Salesforce.com platform, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Salesforce is necessary.

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If you are a developer who wants to learn how to develop and deploy applications from the Salesforce.com platform, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Salesforce is necessary.
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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
1. Getting Started with Force.com Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Building the Data Model Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Building the User Interface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Implementing Business Processes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Custom Coding with Apex Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Deploying the Force.com Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A. Force.com Tools Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Sparagis Elias Jun 25, 2015
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When I started my experience with Force.com in late 2012, I was trying to see “under the hood” and beyond platform’s wizards in order to convince myself to integrate Force.com in my startup. I found great books to begin my trip, but I never found a book with easy language and less jargon.The ‘Learning Force.com Application Development’ from Chamil Madusanka (2015) is a broader approach to Force.com, covering not only the basic functionality and features. Using a friendly approach with simple language and easy-to-follow structure, each chapter interprets the key points and the included labs helps the comprehension.When I first held the book in my hands, I started reading the ‘Table of contents’ and I decided to begin with Apex. Soon enough, I realized that the author also keeps the friendly approach in this chapter, giving “food for thought” for further exploration of the Apex, although, it would be better for the reader to have some previous knowledge of the basics of OOP and the syntax of Transact SQL to dive quickly in coding labs.Concluding, this title provides a comprehensive knowledge for the Force.com platform and it is a great book to start. It can be read from absolute beginners, but it won’t disappoint experienced users like myself.I am pretty confident that you will love it and you will be more enthusiastic with Force.com.Happy reading
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Johan Yu Jul 02, 2015
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This book explain Force.com technology from basic. For those of you have not hands-on and would like to learn Force.com, this book will explain from scratch. I think this book can be categorized into 2 part, the first part would be basic knowledge not related to coding, from intro to Force.com, data model, user interface, security, business process, data management.The second part would dive into learning to write code in Force.com platform. This part cover from basic object oriented programming using Apex class, trigger, query language, and data manipulation. Continue to learn visualforce, where you can create your own custom page.Email service handling in Force.com is another useful chapter discussed in this book. The last part about deployment is interested because as a developer, you need to deploy your code into production as Force.com do not allow you to write code in the Production environment.In general, the book is nicely written and would be handy as reference for you to learn Force.com.
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Tuan Abdeen Jul 27, 2015
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I have read quite a lot of Salesforce related books around Admin and Dev. This book covers every aspect of the Force.com platform including the point & click as well as custom development options. I remember when I started learning Force.com technologies there were no books written by others than the official Salesforce guides. This book is very handy for someone who is new to Force.com or anyone looking to improve their Apex development skills.I was quite amazed to see how much the author has covered on this book specially around Email services and Force.com sites. Only missing point I would believe is around Integrations. Author has given bit of a intro to Integrations, but I would personally like to see some further details around SOAP and RESTFull services. May be couple of samples how to create a Global webservice and how to create @RestResource services for the book to be COMPLETE.
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The text lacks some clarity while explaining the project. Needs to be more detailed about what needs to be done before creating a property, formula, or something like that i.e. it needs more pedagogy.
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