Siddhesh Kabe calls himself the monk who sold his computer for the cloud.

He has had a rock-solid career in consulting, training, designing, developing,and advocating the Force.com platform for 8 years. He has five certifications in Salesforce. He likes to break into things—code and gadgets—and believes that, given enough coffee, anything can be hacked into.

His other published work includes a science-fiction satire called Ragnarok and a fantasy graphic novel entitled Agatya. Apart from this, he is an active member of the Force.com community and owns an active blog (http://force.siddheshkabe.co.in). He is also the leader of the Force.com Pune Users Group.

• Preface
• Chaper 1 : Getting Started with Force.com
  • The cloud computing model of Force.com
  • Understanding the new model of the Salesforce1 platform
  • Force.com application types
  • Salesforce editions
  • Authentication on Force.com
  • DeveloperForce.com
  • Trailhead
  • Summary
  • Test your knowledge
• Chaper 2 : Creating a Database on Force.com
  • Objects
  • Fields
  • An overview of Lightning Connect and external objects
  • External lookups
  • Summary
  • Test your knowledge
• Chaper 3 : User Interface
  • Customizing tabs
  • Custom tabs
  • Global and local actions
  • Page layout assignment
  • Building an application
  • Declaractive lighting components and actions
  • Using the Lighting App Builder
  • Summary
  • Test your knowledge
• Chaper 4 : Implementing Business Logic
  • Automating business processes
  • Automating business processes using Process Builder
  • Process Builder limitations
  • Cloud Flow Designer
  • The Model - View - Container values of the flow
  • Exercise — creating a quick customer
  • Permissions to run a flow
  • Automating time - based actions using workflows
  • Improving productivity using the automated approval process
  • Comparing workflows and approval processes
  • Debugging and monitoring the process
  • Summary
  • Test your knowledge
Chaper 5 : Data Management
• The basics of data operations
• Difference between 18 and 15 - character record IDs
• Relationships - masters first
• Data loading tools
• Using the Data Import Wizard
• Other data manipulation wizards
• Data storage limit
• Summary
• Test your knowledge
Chaper 6 : Analytics and Reporting
• Reports
• Creating a report
• The summary report format
• The matrix report format
• The joined report format
• Dashboards
• Displaying graphical charts using dashboards
• Dashboard running user
• Scheduling a dashboard refresh
• Analytic snapshot
• Summary
• Test your knowledge
Chaper 7 : Application Administration
• Managing the access control
• Force.com licenses
• Using queues to balance workloads
• Localization with the translation workbench
• Restricting data access
• Assigning roles
• Sharing rules
• Setting up security
• Social features
• Summary
• Test your knowledge
Chaper 8 : Exam Guide and Practice Test
• An overview of the Salesforce Certified Platform App Developer Exam
• A practice test
• Additional resources
• Summary
Appendix : Self - Test Practice
Index