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
Introducing Relationships
Introducing Relationship Custom Fields
Adding Candidates to the Mix
Bringing Candidates and Positions Together with Job Applications
Try It Out: Create the Job Application Object
Try It Out: Add Fields to the Job Application Object
Try It Out: Customize the Job Application Record Highlights
Look at What We've Done
Introducing Search Layouts
Managing Review Assessments
Creating a Many-to-Many Relationship
Putting it All Together
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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Look at What We've Done

Tada! If you click on the new Job Applications tab and click New, you'll see the Candidate lookup field, a Position lookup field, the candidate's cover letter, and a Status picklist field.

Custom Fields on the Job Application Edit Page The Job Application detail page displaying a Status custom field

Don’t forget to launch the Salesforce app to see our new compact layout in action. Now mobile users will see important details without having to scroll through a list of fields.

Record Highlights for a Job Application Record Record Highlights for a Job Application record

But there's more! Because we've built a couple of lookup relationships, our candidate and position record detail pages now each have a new Job Applications related list. And the Job Application detail page includes links to the candidate and position records that it references. All three objects are now related and linked to one another!

Job Application Links to Position and Candidate Data The Job Applications related list displayed on both the Candidate and Position record detail pages. The Job Application detail page also contains links to the Candidate and Position records.

Before we move on, let's see if we can clean up the usability of our app a bit more so our users don't have to identify candidates and job applications by number when they click the lookup button in the Job Application edit page, or when they look at the Job Applications related list on the Candidate or Position detail pages.