Expanding the Simple App Using Relationships

So far we've accomplished a fair amount—we've created the Recruiting app and built out a fully functional Position custom object with a tab and several types of fields. It's a good start, but there's more to do.

Having just one object in our Recruiting app is like having a party with just one guest—not all that interesting! We need to invite more “people” to the party by building custom objects to represent candidates, job applications, and reviews, and, even more importantly, we need to create relationships between them. Just like a party isn't all that fun if you don't know any of the other guests, an app isn't all that powerful unless its objects have links to other objects in the app. That's going to be the focus of this chapter, so let's get started!