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table of contents
Navigating Your Force.com Trial
Getting Started Tab................................................................................. 4
Home and Chatter Tabs ........................................................................ 5
Force.com Setup Page, DeveloperForce and AppExchange ............... 6
Building Your First Force.com App
Create a Simple App ..............................................................................7
Enhance and View Your App ................................................................ 8
Extending Your Salesforce CRM with Force.com
Sales Cloud ............................................................................................ 9
Service Cloud …………………………………………………........... 13
Dashboards ……………………………............................................. 17
Exploring Sample Apps in Your Force.com Trial
Survey Force ......................................................................................... 18
Milestones PM ..................................................................................... 21

The fastest path from idea to app starts
with Force.com on the Salesforce Platform.
Trusted by over 100,000 customers, the
Salesforce Platform brings together services
like Force.com, Heroku, Database.com and
Site.com. And this quick peek at Force.com
on the Salesforce Platform is just the start of
turning ideas into business apps that give
you competitive advantages.
To get started, read on.

4A Quick Peek at How Salesforce Enables App Dev |
Getting Started tab. Here you’ll find videos and text tutorials to walk you
through a few steps to get up and running with your trial.
NAVIGATING YOUR FORCE.COM TRIAL
Tabs
Every Force.com app is a collection of tabs
which you can use to quickly jump to different
areas of the app. The Getting Started app is the
starting point for your Force.com trial.
Help & Training
This link takes you to our help portal where you
can get help on speci c topics, or ask questions
that you have in our customer community.
Force.com App Menu
Your available apps are listed in this drop-down
list that displays at the top of every Salesforce
page. Your Force.com trial comes pre-loaded
with sample apps and Salesforce CRM apps for
sales and customer service. You can always
use this menu to get back to the Getting Started
app anytime during your trial.
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Home tab. The home tab is a
typical starting point for most
Force.com apps. The home tab
contains standard components
such as your Chatter feed,
Recent Items and Messages
& Alerts and any custom
components that you create
such as logos and dashboards.
It can be customized based on
the user experience you want
for your app.
Chatter tab. Chatter is a
secure collaboration platform
built into Force.com that lets
you make any app that you
build instantly social. With
Chatter, your Force.com
apps can enable workers to
collaborate on any data object
defined in your app.
Navigating Your Force.com Trial Follow Force.com

Force.com Setup page. The Force.com Setup page contains options for
building and managing apps. To access, click Your Name | Setup.
Setup Menu
In the left pane, use the
Setup menu to access
all setup actions. The
Setup menu includes
tools for browsing and
searching setup options.
Getting Started Section of Setup
Click the Add App button to start the Quick Start
wizard, a step-by-step tool for generating a basic
app in a single step.
App Setup
Contains options for creating custom apps
and adding new components such as
objects, elds and tabs. Also contains options
to customize existing objects and apps.
Administration Setup
Contains options for
con guring apps such as
de ning users, roles,
access settings and
security.
AppExchange
The world’s leading business apps
marketplace. Click here to nd ready-
to-use apps, covering every
department and industry built by
Salesforce partners. You can install
and use AppExchange apps as part of
your Force.com trial.
Links to Developer Resources
The developerforce section
contains links to robust developer
content and access to the
Force.com developer community.
Navigating Your Force.com Trial

1. Go to the Force.com Setup page
by clicking Your Name | Setup
2. Click the big Add App button in
the Getting Started section to
start the wizard.
3. Fill in the form as follows, then
click Create.
• App: My Shopping List
• Label: My Shopping List Item
• Plural Label: My Shopping List
Items
4. Now, you’ve created a new Force.
com app called My Shopping
List that tracks your shopping list
items.
5. Click Go To My App
6. Take a tour of your app. Click
Start Tour and follow along.
7. Your Shopping List app has
been added to the Force.com
app menu and also has its own
tab where you can add new
shopping list items.
8. Try out your app: add a few
shopping list items such as bread,
fruit, dress shirt, garden hose.
Create A Simple App
It’s easy to get started with Force.com because it’s a cloud platform: no
servers to configure, no software to install. Once you’ve logged into Force.
com, it’s really simple to build your first app in minutes using the Force.com
Quick Start wizard. Try it out by building a basic app for managing your
shopping list for the week.
BUILDING YOUR FIRST FORCE.COM APP

Enhance Your App
View Your App
1. Let’s add a custom field to your app called
Category to organize your Shopping List Items.
2. From the Force.com Quick Access Menu (the tab
that pops out from the right side of the window),
hover your mouse over View Fields and click
+New.
3. Select Picklist, then click Next.
4. For the new field’s Field Label, enter Category.
5. For the new field’s picklist, enter the following on
separate lines:
• Groceries
• Clothing
• Garden
6. Click Next, then Next, then Save.
7. Click the My Shopping List Items tab. Click one
of your items. Notice that the new Category field
is on your item’s page layout. Double-click the
Category field and pick a category, then click
Save. Repeat for all the items in your list.
1. We can also create a new View under the Shopping List Items tab so
we can see the items and their categories at the same time.
2. Click Create New View and name it. Under the Select Fields to Display
section, select the Category field to the right hand side. Click Save.
3. Nice job, and not a single line of code!
Building Your First Force.com App

Your Force.com trial comes with sample custom apps and Salesforce CRM
apps for Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, labeled as Sales and Call Center in
the Force.com app menu. Salesforce makes it easy to extend your existing
Sales Cloud or Service Cloud with Force.com, since both these CRM apps are
built on Force.com.
EXTENDING YOUR SALESFORCE CRM WITH FORCE.COM

Sales App. The Sales app has
many different tabs including
Accounts, Contacts and
Opportunities. We can extend
the Sales app in many different
ways such as adding new
custom tabs, new objects, new
fields or new dashboards.
Contacts. The Contacts tab
is where you can track all
of the contacts you have at
companies you do business
with. When you click into a
contact you can see all the
contact information that you
have for that individual based
on the defined page layout.
Let’s walk through an example
of extending the Contact
object.
This tutorial walks you through an example of how the Sales app can be
extended using Force.com by customizing the page layout of contact records.
Contacts are standard objects in Sales Cloud.
Extending Your Salesforce Crm with Force.com – Sales Cloud Example

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We’ll customize the Contacts
object by adding an existing
field to the page layout view for
contact record details.
Go to Your Name | Setup and
then App Setup | Customize |
Contacts | Page Layout. And
then click Edit for the Contact
Layout.
The page layout editor consists
of two parts: a palette on the
upper portion of the screen
and the page layout on the
lower portion. If you want to
get help on how to customize
pages using the page layout
editor, click on Help for this
Page (look for the )!
From the palette, drag and
drop the existing field called
Email Opt Out to the Contact
Information section of the
page layout. Click Save in the
top left of the palette.
Palette
Contains the user interface elements, such as ﬁelds, buttons, links, related lists,
and any additional elements that are available to add to the page layout.
Extending Your Salesforce CRM with Force.com – Sales Cloud Example

Go back to the Sales app, click on the Contacts tab and select a contact. The
existing field called Email Opt Out is now added to the default page layout of
all of my Contact records, enhancing the information I can see for each
contact in Sales Cloud. Remember, if you already have Sales Cloud, then you
already have Force.com too, since Sales Cloud is built on Force.com. This
means that you can extend your existing Sales Cloud right from within your
existing Salesforce org, where all your customer data already exists!

Call Center App. The Call
Center app has many
different tabs including Cases,
Solutions and Reports. We
can extend the Call Center
app in many different ways
such as adding new custom
tabs, new objects, new fields
or new dashboards.
Cases. The Cases tab is
where your agents will find
the cases or customer service
issues they need to work
on. Let’s walk through an
example of extending the
Case object.
By using the Setup menu that is part of Force.com, you can create custom
fields to track new information that doesn’t already exist in your Salesforce
CRM app. This tutorial walks you through an example of how the Call Center
app can be extended using Force.com by adding a custom field to the existing
Case object. Cases are standard objects in Service Cloud.
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To add a custom field to a Case.
Go to Your Name | Setup and
then App Setup | Customize |
Cases | Fields. And then click
New in the section for Case
Custom Fields & Relationships.
Select Formula for the Data
Type. Click Next.
In this example, we will add
a custom field called Case
Age and use a formula to
calculate how many days the
case has been open.

Enter Case Age for the Field
Label and select Number
for the formula return type.
Click Next.
In this example, we will add a
custom field called Case Age
and use a formula to calculate
how many days the case has
been open.
Enter the formula:
IF(IsClosed,
ROUND(ClosedDate
- CreatedDate, 0),
ROUND((NOW() -
CreatedDate), 0)).
Click Check Syntax to make
sure the formula is correctly
entered.
Click Next, Next and Save.
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Go back to the Call Center app, click on the Cases tab and select a case.
The Case Age field now appears in the Case record detail. Remember, if you
already have Service Cloud, then you already have Force.com too, since
Service Cloud is built on Force.com. Now that you have the hang of it, you can
go to your existing Salesforce org, where all your customer data already
exists, and add all the custom fields that you need for your business!

Extending Your Salesforce CRM with Force.com – Dashboards Example
You can also extend your Salesforce CRM apps with dashboards that report
on your sales and service data. Force.com comes with built-in analytics and
reporting capabilities that you can use to create comprehensive CRM dash-
boards so that your sales and service teams can stay on top of every deal or
case. The Force.com trial comes with several sample CRM dashboards for
Sales Executives, Customer Service Agent Supervisors and Service KPIs.
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Your Force.com trial comes pre-loaded with sample apps which are
accessible from the Force.com app menu. In addition to the basic Shopping
List app example, there are sample apps for surveys (Survey Force) and
project management (Milestones PM) as well as best practice CRM
dashboard examples – all the sample apps are native Force.com apps.
EXPLORING SAMPLE APPS IN YOUR FORCE.COM TRIAL

Getting Started tab
Survey Force has a Getting
Started tab that walks you
through the steps to create
your rst survey.
Sample Survey
There is a sample survey wizard which you
can use to create and send a sample
survey in minutes.
Additional Resources
Detailed installation and user
guides are available to help you
get up and running.
Survey Force. The Survey Force sample app can be used to create, send and
capture customer feedback natively in salesforce.com.
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Survey Force. You can use the app to easily:
• Create and order questions via drag and drop
• Distribute surveys via email templates and external sites
• Capture results from Contacts and/or Cases
• Use reports and dashboards to analyze your results

Getting Started tab
Milestones PM has a Getting
Started tab that walks you
through the steps to create
your first project to track. Initial Project
A project wizard installs a sample
project with precon gured data
that guides you on how to use
the reporting and dashboards
that come with the app.
Milestones PM. The Milestones PM sample app can be used to manage a
variety of items for your users including projects, milestones, tasks, times, and
expense budgets. You can create tasks using email integration or a simple
single line interface.
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Milestones PM. For more information on how to customize Milestones PM,
check out the demo and reference guides on AppExchange, just search for
the Milestones PM app built by Salesforce Labs!

Reporting and Dashboards. Both Survey Force and Milestones PM come with
pre-designed reports and dashboards that you can use to explore the apps
and modify as you need. Your Force.com trial also comes pre-loaded with
best practice CRM dashboards that can be used as starting points for your
Sales and Service Cloud implementations.
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Get started on turning
your ideas into business apps
that can revolutionize the way
your company with our 30-day
free force.com trial. or watch our
introductory platform demo video.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP.
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