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 Trailhead
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
Automating Business Processes
Analyzing Data with Reports and Dashboards
Moving Beyond Point-and-Click App Development
Learning More
Glossary
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Choosing Your Development Environment

To follow along with the exercises in this book, you’ll need a Salesforce account. If you’re a Salesforce customer, you can use a Force.com sandbox. A sandbox is a copy of your Salesforce org that you can use for testing configurations and training users without compromising the data in your production org. Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, and Performance Editions come with free sandboxes. Users of other editions can use Developer Edition to do the exercises.

If you’re new to Salesforce, or if you don’t want to use a sandbox, go to http://sforce.co/WBtUN7 and sign up for a free Developer Edition account. Developer Edition is a fully functional version of Salesforce that you can use to develop Salesforce apps. Since it’s free, there are limits on the amount of users, bandwidth, and storage you’re allowed, but it includes all the features in Salesforce. When you sign up, you become part of the growing community of Force.com platform developers around the world.

Although Developer Edition orgs include all the features in Salesforce, these orgs are more limited than sandbox orgs. Developer Edition orgs, for example, are limited to two registered users. If you’re using a Developer Edition version of Salesforce, you might not be able to complete some of the exercises in this workbook.

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