PacktLib: Force.com Tips and Tricks

Force.com Tips and Tricks

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Learning to Fly with Force.com

What is cloud computing?

What is Force.com?

Salesforce environments

Summary

Admin Tools

Data Loader

The Import wizard

Third-party tools for data integration

Force.com Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Force.com Migration Tool

AppExchange – cloud application marketplace

Summary

Making Best Use of Salesforce Objects

Understanding the field types

Considerations for relationships

Types of objects

Record types

Summary

Understanding Analytics

Report types

Reports

Dashboards

Analytic snapshots

Summary

Setting Up Development Environments

Building apps on Salesforce

What is an environment?

Migrating changes between environments

Application lifecycle management

Summary

Tools and Destinations that Every Force.com Developer Should Know

Tools for developers and admins

Destinations

Summary

Writing Better Apex Code

Understanding the language basics

Advanced Apex

Summary

Writing Better Visualforce Code

Knowing the Visualforce architecture

Reusing the platform's native look and feel

Reusing VF code

Limiting view states

Flexible pages using field sets

Speeding up Ajax calls

Global variables and functions

JavaScript remoting

Taking care of security compliance in pages

Miscellaneous tips

Summary

Index