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Mastering Salesforce CRM Administration

You're reading from   Mastering Salesforce CRM Administration An Advanced Administration Certification Handbook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786463180
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakesh Gupta Rakesh Gupta
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Preface 1. A Deep Dive into the Salesforce Lightning Experience FREE CHAPTER 2. Security Settings in Salesforce 3. Territory Management 4. Extending Salesforce with Custom Objects and Applications 5. Getting More Value from Sales Cloud 6. Increasing Service Agent Productivity by Using Service Cloud 7. Optimizing Business Processes with Visual Workflow and Approval Processes 8. Automating Complex Business Processes 9. Analyzing Productivity with Reports and Dashboards 10. E-mail and Mobile Administration 11. Different Ways of Deploying an Application between Environments 12. Basics of Apex and Visualforce Page

Benefits of Visual Workflow


There are multiple benefits of using Visual Workflow instead of Visualforce Page or Apex code. They are as follows:

  1. To use Visual Workflow, no coding is required. This means even if you don't have experience in writing Apex code, you can still develop an application.

  2. You can share your application with peers by creating packages.

  3. Using Screen, Record, Fast, Field, and Choice elements, you can implement a complex business process to make sure that your users are entering data in the right format.

  4. It also allows you to auto-submit records for approval.

  5. You can also post a message on Chatter. For example, If an opportunity status gets Closed Won, post a message on the Account feed.

  6. It allows you to embed your flow into a Visualforce Page. Then, using Force.com site, you can expose it for unauthenticated access.

  7. You don't need to write a unit test class, and this is one added advantage over Apex code.

  8. Salesforce allows you to update your flow into production org, but you...

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