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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

4.7 (39)
By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce makes architecting enterprise grade applications easy and secure – but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as separation of concerns, unit testing, and dependency injection. You'll also get to grips with Apex and fflib, create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring asynchronous processing features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how the Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
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Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
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Part III: Developing the Frontend
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Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
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Index

Record identification, uniqueness, and auto-numbering

Every record in Salesforce has an ID field and, with a few exceptions, a Name field or DeveloperName field for Custom Metadata Type objects. The ID field is unique, but is not human readable, meaning it cannot be entered or, for most of us on this planet, easily remembered!

The Standard and Custom Objects default value for the Name field is to provide a means for the user to enter their own textual description for the record, such as the race name or the driver name. The Name field is not enforced as being unique. Being the primary means by which the user identifies records, this can be a problem and is something that the end user needs to avoid. This aspect of the platform can be particularly problematic with accounts and contacts, hence, AppExchange has a number of so-called “deduplication” applications you can try.

The Database.merge and merge DML statements support the merging of accounts, leads...

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