Salesforce App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce App Administration
Developing for the Salesforce App
Welcome to Salesforce Platform Development
Our Scenario
Who This Part is For
When to Use Declarative vs. Programmatic Tools to Create Salesforce Apps
When to Use the Salesforce Platform vs. Creating Custom Apps
Salesforce Platform Development Process
Development Prerequisites
Change the System Administrator Page Layout Assignment
Designing Mobile-First User Interfaces
Extending the Salesforce App with Visualforce Pages
Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Development Prerequisites

You’ll need to have these before you can start these exercises.
  • Access to a Developer Edition organization.

    If you aren’t already a member of the Force.com developer community, go to http://sforce.co/1om1gHf and follow the instructions for signing up for a Developer Edition organization. Even if you already have Enterprise Edition, Unlimited Edition, or Performance Edition, use Developer Edition for developing, staging, and testing your solutions against sample data to protect your organization’s live data.

  • The “API Enabled” permission must be enabled for your Developer Edition organization. This permission is enabled by default, but might have been changed by an administrator.
  • The Warehouse data model must be installed in your Developer Edition organization and the Salesforce app installed on a mobile device. If you haven’t already set up these items, see Setting Up Your Work Environment.