Building Applications

with Force.com
 
This comprehensive hands-on course is a must for new application developers who want to create custom
Force.com applications or customize existing Salesforce applications. Participants will learn how to use the
declarative “clicks not code” capabilities of the Force.com platform to create new applications, and
Visualforce pages and components to create custom interfaces.

Who should take this course?

Building Applications with Force.com is designed for application
developers who want an in-depth understanding of how to use the
declarative capabilities of the Force.com platform to create custom Duration
5 days
applications and Visualforce pages to customize interfaces. This course
provides the foundation for developers who need to know how to Delivery Format
leverage these capabilities for rapid development and to prepare for Classroom or virtual classroom; for self-
learning Apex and Visualforce page controllers. paced online training, visit
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virtually. Both formats provide demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and Certification
personal attention from the instructor as well as interaction with your Building Applications with Force.com
peers. For the virtual class, all you need is a web browser and a prepares you to take the Salesforce.com
telephone to watch, listen, and get hands-on experience with the Certified Force.com Developer exam.
application.

Prerequisites
The prerequisites include a solid understanding of basic Salesforce concepts and functionality and
completion of the following online courses, which are available at help.salesforce.com or, for
salesforce.com customers, right from the Help site in Salesforce:

! Getting Started: Navigating Salesforce

! Getting Started: Using the Sales Cloud
What you will learn I took three
When you complete this course, you’ll be able to:
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! Build and customize multi-user cloud applications with just clicks. training classes
! Define an application’s data model. which were
! Customize the user interface. amazing. There
! Create advanced workflows and validation rules. were so many
! Automate business processes. ‘aha’ moments.
! Manage your data.
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! Modify the user interface with Visualforce pages. Director of Security
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Course Outline: Building Applications with Force.com
Topic Objective
Designing Applications on Force.com ! Learn about factors to consider when building a data model
! Develop custom objects and fields
! Create and customize page layouts and publisher actions
! Create master-detail, lookup, and many-to-many relationships
! Create custom applications
! Use custom object queues and event-based workflow rules
with field update actions
Designing Applications for Multiple ! Learn about factors to consider when designing applications for
Users multiple users
! Create and customize profiles to manage the user experience
! Create and customize permission sets to manage the user
experience
! Employ organization-wide defaults (OWDs), sharing rules,
roles, role hierarchy, public groups, and manual sharing to
control access to records
! Analyze suitability of field-level security, page layouts, and
record types to satisfy business requirements
Implementing Business Processes ! Use validation rules to enforce conditional required behavior
! Use functions to enforce data format and data consistency
! Create parallel approval processes and approval processes
with dynamic approval routing to automate business processes
! Establish approval process criteria with cross-object formulas
! Set up field history tracking to audit processes
! Learn techniques to prevent or record data changes
! Create and deploy a flow using Visual Workflow
Managing Data ! Learn when and how to export, delete, insert, update, and
upsert data
! Use the Data Import Wizard and Data Loader to manage data
Visualforce Pages: ! Learn about the capabilities of Visualforce pages
Enhancing the User Interface ! Create Visualforce pages to modify the user interface
! Learn about the functionality that comes with Visualforce page
standard controllers
! Create templates that can be applied to multiple Visualforce
pages
! Learn about incorporating Visualforce into a page layout
! Learn about incorporating JavaScript and Ajax with Visualforce
! Learn about exposing Visualforce to the Internet
! Learn about incorporating Visualforce into Salesforce1

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