Learning Force.com Application Development电子书

Learning Force.com Application Development

Table of Contents

Learning Force.com Application Development

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Force.com

Introduction to the Force.com platform

Understanding the Force.com model

Key features of the Force.com platform

Multitenancy

Application services

Force.com metadata

MVC architecture

Programming language

Apex

Visualforce

SOQL

SOSL

Integration

Force.com sites

AppExchange

Advantages of Force.com

Designing and developing applications on the Force.com platform

Signing up for a free developer edition account

Basic application design

Types of applications suitable for Force.com

Design consideration

Customization on the Force.com platform

Identifying building blocks of the Force.com platform

The sample application

Summary

2. Building the Data Model

Creating objects

Standard objects

Custom objects

Creating custom fields

Text data types

Numeric field data types

Calendar data types

Formatted text data types

Calculation data types

Limited option data types

Relationship data types

Special relationship types

Creating a lookup relationship field

Creating a master-detail relationship field

Summary

3. Building the User Interface

Creating a Force.com custom application

Creating custom tabs

Custom object tabs

Visualforce tabs

The Web tab

Customizing page layouts

Search layouts

Page layouts

The page layout editor

An overview of Visualforce

Advantages of Visualforce

Summary

4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data

Design considerations

An overview of Force.com licenses

The security framework of the Force.com platform

Organization security

Password policies

Activations

Login access policies

Certificate and key management

Remote site settings

Other organization security settings

User security

Network-based security

Session security

Administrative security

Profiles and roles

Creating a custom profile

Assigning roles

Administrative permissions and general user permissions

Permission sets

Groups

Queues

Component-based security

Application permissions

Tab permissions

Record type permissions

Apex class and Visualforce page permissions

Object permissions

Field-level security permissions

Record-based security

Record ownership

Organization-wide defaults

Record sharing

Summary

5. Implementing Business Processes

Preserving data quality with validation rules

Defining validation rules

Considerations and tips for writing validation rules

Automating the business process using workflows

Creating workflow rules

Time-dependent actions and time trigger considerations

Automating the business process using approval processes

Creating a multistep approval process

Approval process considerations

Comparing workflow and approval processes

Summary

6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform

Data management operations

The CRUD commands

The Upsert command

Force.com record IDs

Characteristics of record IDs

Inserting system fields

External IDs

Data management tools

Cloud-based tools

The data import wizard

Data export

Mass transfer records

Mass delete records

API-based tools

Apex Data Loader

Exporting data using Data Loader

Upserting data using Data Loader

Summary

7. Custom Coding with Apex

Introducing Apex

Apex code in the runtime environment

Apex code and unit testing

Apex governors and limits

Apex code and security

Apex code and web services

Apex and metadata

Working with Apex

Apex basics

Apex data types

Primitive data types

Enum data types

sObject data types

Collection data types

Apex logics and loops

Writing Apex code – object-oriented programming in Apex

Creating Apex code

Syntax to define classes

Syntax to define interfaces

Syntax for attributes and methods

Access modifiers

The static keyword

The final keyword

Class constructors

Triggers

Trigger syntax

Trigger context variables

Triggers and the order of execution

Exceptions in triggers

Creating triggers

Trigger considerations

Force.com platform query languages

Salesforce.com Object Query Language (SOQL)

SOQL basic syntax

SOQL keywords

SOQL functions

SOQL relationship queries

Salesforce.com Object Search Language (SOSL)

Dynamic SOQL and SOSL

Data manipulation on the Force.com platform

Standalone statements

Database methods

SaveResult

Database.DMLOptions

DML and Loops

Apex SOQL and DML governor limits

Data integrity and transactions

Summary

8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce

Introducing Visualforce

The concepts of Visualforce

The Visualforce architecture

Visualforce pages

Expression syntax and data binding

Visualforce and standard web development technologies

Styling Visualforce pages

Salesforce styles

Custom styles

Using JavaScript in Visualforce pages

Accessing Visualforce components with JavaScript

JavaScript remoting for Apex controllers

Using jQuery in Visualforce pages

HTML5 and Visualforce pages

Visualforce controllers

Standard controllers

Standard controller – data bindings

Standard controller – traversing data

Standard controller – data validation messages

Standard controller – actions

Standard list controllers

Standard list controller – actions

Custom controllers

Controller methods

Getter methods

Setter methods

Action methods

Navigation methods

Controller extensions

Considerations to create custom controllers and controller extensions

The order of execution of a Visualforce page

Get requests of a Visualforce page

Postback requests of a Visualforce page

Visualforce custom components

Creating and using a custom component

Custom attributes and custom controllers

Advantages of Visualforce

Summary

9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform

Reports

Report formats

Tabular reports

Summary reports

Matrix reports

Joined reports

Building a report

Custom report types

Dashboards

Building a dashboard

Reporting snapshot

Setting up a reporting snapshots

Summary

10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform

Handling inbound e-mails

Implementing the InboundEmailHandler interface

Setting up the e-mail service

Sending e-mails

Sending a single e-mail

Sending mass e-mails

Sending e-mails with attachments

Visualforce e-mail templates

Summary

11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites

Force.com sites

Creating and customizing your first Force.com site

Registering a domain name

Creating a Force.com site using the domain name

Assigning Visualforce pages to the site

Setting up the security access permissions

Public Access Settings

Login settings

Best practices on Force.com sites

Summary

12. Deploying the Force.com Application

Application development methodology and architecture

Migrating configuration changes

Sandboxes

Change set

Setting up deployment connections

Best practices

Packages

Managed packages

Unmanaged packages

Creating a package

Uploading the package

Simple deployment with the Force.com IDE

Distributing Force.com applications onto AppExchange

Summary

A. Force.com Tools

Development tools

Data tools

Cloud integration tools

Language integration libraries

Salesforce platform mobile services

Summary

Index