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Force.com for Developers
Force.com is a powerful cloud platform for rapidly building web applications. In this course, we look at all the major capabilities of the platform and discuss best practices for successfully building applications.
Course info
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 24, 2012
Duration
5h 47m
Table of contents
Introduction to Force.com
Introduction
2m
What does Platform as a Service (PaaS) mean?
3m
Salesforce.com vs. Force.com
2m
Key concepts
2m
Primary services
2m
Comparing Force.com to other PaaS offerings
2m
When should you choose Force.com?
2m
Creating an account and sample application
2m
DEMO: Creating an account and sample application
5m
Introducing the course scenario
2m
Developer resources
1m
Summary
3m
Using the Force.com Database
Introduction
1m
Scenario overview
1m
Creating data objects
3m
DEMO: Creating data objects
7m
Adding fields
4m
DEMO: Adding fields to custom objects
7m
DEMO: Adding fields to standard objects
5m
Defining relationships
2m
DEMO: Defining relationships
5m
Leveraging formula fields
2m
DEMO: Leveraging formula fields
4m
Data structure visualization using Schema Builder
2m
DEMO: Data structure visualization using Schema Builder
5m
Querying database objects using SOQL
4m
DEMO: Querying database objects using SOQL
8m
Searching database objects using SOSL
3m
DEMO: Searching database objects using SOSL
3m
Summary
2m
Configuring and Customizing the Force.com User Interface
Introduction
1m
Scenario overview
1m
The user interface
3m
DEMO: The user interface
6m
Introducing Visualforce
2m
Visualforce components
4m
Developing Visualforce pages
2m
DEMO: Developing Visualforce pages
8m
Visualforce controllers
3m
DEMO: Visualforce controllers
5m
Changing the appearance of a Visualforce page
2m
DEMO: Changing the appearance of a Visualforce page
3m
Accessing Visualforce pages
2m
Summary
2m
Building Reports on Force.com
Introduction
1m
Scenario overview
1m
Creating reports
3m
DEMO: Creating reports
7m
Executing reports
1m
DEMO: Executing reports
2m
Building custom reports
1m
DEMO: Building custom reports
5m
Creating dashboards
2m
DEMO: Creating dashboards
3m
Defining analytic snapshots
2m
DEMO: Defining analytic snapshots
4m
Summary
2m
Adding Business Logic to Force.com Applications
Introduction
1m
Scenario overview
1m
Creating validation rules
3m
DEMO: Creating validation rules
4m
Apex language constructs - data types
3m
Apex language constructs - classes
2m
Apex language constructs - objects
2m
DEMO: Writing Apex code
7m
Apex language constructs - collections
3m
DEMO: Apex language constructs - arrays
2m
DEMO: Apex language constructs - lists
3m
DEMO: Apex language constructs - sets
3m
DEMO: Apex language constructs - maps
3m
Apex language constructs - expression operators and control logic
2m
DEMO: Apex language constructs - expression operators and control logic
4m
Using Apex with the database
5m
DEMO: Using Apex with the database
5m
Working with Apex triggers
2m
DEMO: Working with Apex triggers
5m
Leveraging the Apex Scheduler
2m
Summary
3m
Leveraging Workflows in Force.com
Introduction
1m
Scenario overview
0m
Defining workflow rules and actions
2m
DEMO: Defining workflow rules and actions
7m
Configuring approval processes
1m
DEMO: Configuring approval processes
7m
Comparing workflow rules to approval processes
1m
Using the Cloud Flow Designer
2m
DEMO: Using the Cloud Flow Designer
9m
Summary
1m
Securing Force.com Applications
Introduction
1m
Scenario overview
0m
Overview of security controls
4m
Visualizing access control
3m
Understanding profiles
2m
DEMO: Understanding profiles
4m
Applying field security
1m
DEMO: Applying field security
3m
Defining the organization wide defaults
2m
DEMO: Defining the organization wide defaults
2m
Creating application roles
2m
DEMO: Creating application roles
3m
Sharing records
2m
DEMO: Sharing records
6m
Performing SSO using SAML
3m
Summary
1m
Integrating with Force.com
Introduction
1m
Scenario overview
1m
Event-driven behavior with Outbound Messaging
3m
DEMO: Event-driven behavior with Outbound Messaging
6m
Using the Enteprise WSDL
3m
DEMO: Using the Enterprise WSDL
7m
Using the Partner WSDL
2m
DEMO: Using the Partner WSDL
4m
Creating custom Apex SOAP web services
2m
DEMO: Creating custom Apex SOAP web service
4m
Building RESTful Apex services
2m
DEMO: Consuming built-in RESTful services
5m
DEMO: Creating a RESTful Apex service
3m
Summary
2m
Description
Course info
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 24, 2012
Duration
5h 47m
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Description
Force.com is the platform beneath the market-leading Salesforce.com application. Force.com provides a rich framework for quickly building full-featured cloud applications. This course includes descriptions and demonstrations of all the major facets of Force.com including the data model, user interface, reporting, business logic, custom coding, workflow, security and integration.
About the author
About the author
Richard Seroter is a Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, frequent public speaker, author of multiple books on software design and development, and former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.
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Course info
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Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 24, 2012
Duration
5h 47m
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