Force.com Platform Fundamentals

Preface
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
Introducing Mash-Ups and Web Services
Introducing Visualforce
Implementing the Candidate Map
Try It Out: Create a Visualforce Page
Try It Out: Write Visualforce Markup
Try It Out: Add the Map to Our Visualforce Page
Try It Out: Add the Candidate Map to Position Page Layouts
Try It Out: Enable the Candidate Map for Mobile
Try It Out: Test the Candidate Map
Implementing the Mass Update Status Button
Learning More
Glossary
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Try It Out: Test the Candidate Map

Navigate to any position record with one or more candidate applications. (If you haven't created any job applications in your app, now would be a good time.) After you bring up a position record, scroll down to see the Candidate Map in action!
Our Working Candidate Map The Candidate Map Visualforce page, which contains a map of the San Francisco Bay Area

Launch Salesforce1 to see how the Candidate Map looks mobile. When you bring up a position record, swipe to the record detail view and scroll down to see the map. We can’t interact with the map on the record details page. To do so, tap the map to open it in another page. Everything looks in order!

Notice how the Candidate Map Visualforce page is embedded within our Recruiting app just like the other functionality we built using the platform's declarative, point-and-click tools. Also notice that the map automatically displays only candidates who applied to this position.

With very little programming and a few clicks, we've mashed up the Google Maps service with Force.com and made the result look as if it were made expressly for our Recruiting app. Couple SOAP API with the thousands of Web services that are available on the Internet today, and the possibilities are limited only by our imaginations!