Force.com for Developers

By Richard Seroter
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
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
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 24, 2012
Duration
5h 47m
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
Richard Seroter
About the author

Richard Seroter is the VP of Product Marketing at Pivotal, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an 11-time Microsoft MVP for cloud, an instructor for Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, and author of multiple books. As Vice President at Pivotal, Richard leads product, customer, technical, and partner marketing teams. 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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