Force.com Platform Fundamentals

Preface
Welcome to the Cloud!
About This Book
Intended Audience
Chapter Contents
Choosing Your Development Environment
Sending Feedback
About Salesforce Developers
Salesforce Training & Certification
Introducing the Force.com Platform
About the Sample Recruiting App
Reviewing Database Concepts
Building a Simple App
Enhancing the Simple App with Advanced Fields, Data Validation, and Page Layouts
Expanding the Simple App Using Relationships
Securing and Sharing Data
Collaborating with Chatter
Using Custom Workflow and Approval Processes
Analyzing Data with Reports and Dashboards
Moving Beyond Point-and-Click App Development
Learning More
Glossary
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Chapter Contents

If you're already familiar with the Force.com platform, you can skip around to the chapters in which you're most interested:
Chapter Description
Introducing the Force.com Platform Learn about the technologies behind the Force.com platform, including the AppExchange directory.
About the Sample Recruiting App Learn about the recruiting application that we'll be building in this book and the fictitious company for whom we'll be building it.
Reviewing Database Concepts Review database concepts such as tables, records, fields, keys, and relationships.
Building a Simple App Create the first custom object in our recruiting app, and add several basic fields.
Enhancing the Simple App with Advanced Fields, Data Validation, and Page Layouts Add picklists, dependent picklists, validation rules, and formula fields to the custom object, and then edit the layout of the object's detail page.
Expanding the Simple App Using Relationships Add five more custom objects to our recruiting app, and associate them with one another using relationships.
Securing and Sharing Data Set up rules for who can read, create, edit, and delete records in the app.
Collaborating with Chatter Enable Chatter for your organization so users can keep up with the information they care about.
Using Custom Workflow and Approval Processes Define workflow rules and approval processes that assign tasks, update fields, and send emails when certain criteria are met.
Analyzing Data with Reports and Dashboards Create custom reports, charts, and dashboards that give users a bird's-eye view of recruiting data.
Moving Beyond Point-and-Click App Development Learn how to use Visualforce to extend the functionality of the platform by creating a mash-up with Google maps and adding a tool for mass updating records.
Learning More Find out where you can get more information about developing on the platform.
Glossary Look up the definition of any term you find unfamiliar.

This book contains lots of screenshots. Because the Force.com platform is a rapidly developing platform, the screenshots might vary slightly from what you see on the screen, but don't worry! These differences should be minor and won't affect your understanding of the system.

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