Force.com Friday: Intro to Force.com
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This document is a webinar presentation introducing the Salesforce App Cloud, discussing its features, tools for development, and forward-looking statements regarding potential risks and uncertainties. It highlights the cloud's benefits for enhancing business processes, engaging customers socially, and accelerating marketing efforts. Additionally, it provides insights into development approaches, including declarative and programmatic methods, the use of Apex, Visualforce, and various tools for building applications.
Force.com Friday: Intro to Force.com
- 2. #forcewebinar Safe Harbor Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of any litigation, risks associated with completed and any possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year and in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter. These documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
- 3. #forcewebinar Go Social! @salesforcedevs / #forcewebinar Salesforce Developers Salesforce Developers Salesforce Developers +Salesforce Developers This webinar is being recorded! The video will be posted to YouTube & the webinar recap page (same URL as registration).
- 4. #forcewebinar Introducing the Salesforce App Cloud FORCE HEROKU ENTERPRISE Model-driven development platform Polyglot platform for elastic scale APPEXCHANGE #1 Enterprise App Marketplace LIGHTNING THUNDER Stream & event- based primitives Visual development platform TRAILHEAD Fun, easy, interactive way to learn App Cloud Experience a new way to build apps
- 5. #forcewebinar Common Use Cases for the Salesforce App Cloud Critical Processes Social Front Ends Social Websites Social Engagement Cut inefficiency with the power of the cloud. Extend the value of your back office. Accelerate your marketing to the pace the market moves at. Connect to customers the way they expect it - social and movile, all the time.
- 6. #forcewebinar Tools for Getting the Job Done Model Form Function Flow Analytics Schema Builder for Easy Data Management Form Builder for Apps, Portals, & Sites Re-usable Formulas, Validations & Logic Drag & Drop Workflow Builder for Business Processes Drag & Drop Chart & Report Builder
- 8. #forcewebinar Two Approaches to Development Declarative Approach Programmatic Approach Page Layouts Record Types Visualforce Pages Visualforce Components User Interface Formula Fields Validation Rules Workflows and Approvals Apex Controllers Apex Triggers Business Logic Custom Objects Custom Fields Relationships Metadata API REST API Bulk API Data Model
- 9. #forcewebinar • Oriented Language • Dot Notation Syntax • Cloud-based Development What is Apex?
- 10. #forcewebinar • Event Based Logic • Associated with Object Types • Before or After: • Insert • Update • Delete • Undelete Apex Triggers
- 11. #forcewebinar Trigger Logic trigger LineItemTrigger on Line_Item__c (before insert, before update) { //separate before and after if(Trigger.isBefore) { //separate events if(Trigger.isInsert) { System.debug(‘BEFORE INSERT’); DelegateClass.performLogic(Trigger.new);
- 12. #forcewebinar • Batchable • Scheduled • Email • REST Services Apex Interfaces and Annotations
- 13. #forcewebinar • Code to test code • Tests can mirror user expectations • System Asserts increase predictability • Line Coverage increase predictability Unit Testing
- 14. #forcewebinar • 75% Coverage for Production • Develop in: • Sandboxes • Developer Editions • Force.com Migration Tool • Force.com CLI • Eclipse Plugin Deploying Your Code
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- 16. #forcewebinar • Framework to build custom user interfaces • Hosted natively on Force.com • Build streamlined UX • Create internal and public facing pages • Customize for different devices • Leverage other web technologies What can you do with Visualforce?
- 17. #forcewebinar Apex and Visualforce Custom UI Custom Apex Controller
- 19. #forcewebinar MVC Visualforce tags 100+ standard components Custom components Works with all standard web technologies including: • CSS • JavaScript • HTML • Flash • Any other Web-Enabled Code
- 20. #forcewebinar Expression Language Anything inside of {! } is evaluated as an expression Dynamic variables: {!Contact.Phone} or {!myApexVariable} Logic: {!IF(Opportunity.Stage == ‘Closed/Won’, val_if_true, val_if_false)} Functions: {!URLENCODE(Account.website__c)} $ provides access to global variables (User, Page, RemoteAction, Resource, …) {!$User.FirstName} {!$User.LastName} {!$Resource.jquery} {!URLFOR($Resource.assets, 'img/logo.png’)}
- 21. #forcewebinar What do standard components look like? <apex:outputField value = “{!Restaurant__c.Address_c} > Merge field to define attribute (can also be a string literal in some cases) Attributes to define components apex: or chatter: prefix Component name (examples: tables, repeats, forms, etc) Data binding to objects and class variables Reference field (using dot notation)
- 22. #forcewebinar • Provides access to data • Logic for handling UI interaction • Standard Controllers Same functionality as standard pages Save, delete, field access etc. • Custom Controllers Written in Apex Override standard behavior Controller Extensions Visualforce Controllers
- 23. #forcewebinar How do I connect a controller? <apex:page standardController = “Restaurant__c” > Defined at the page level Standard or custom objects Inherit standard CRUD functionality If only using custom controllers, use controller=“controllerName” Custom controller logic to extend standard controllers extensions = “ext1, ext2”
- 24. #forcewebinar How can I customize Visualforce?
- 25. #forcewebinar Where can I use Visualforce? Email Templates Embedded in Page Layouts Generate PDFs Custom Tabs Mobile Interfaces Page Overrides
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- 30. Thank You Try Trailhead: http://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead Join the conversation: @salesforcedevs