Force.com tips and tricks : a quick reference guide for administrators and developers to get more productive with Force.com / Ankit Arora, Abhinav Gupta.

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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Learning to Fly with Force.com; What is cloud computing?; Infrastructure as a service (IaaS); Platform as a service (PaaS); Software as a service (SaaS); What is Force.com?; What empowers Force.com?; Multitenancy; Metadata; Understanding the Force.com stack; Infrastructure as a service; Database as a service; Integration as a service; Logic as a service; User interface as a service; Development as a service; Force.com AppExchange; Introduction to governor limits

Salesforce environmentsSummary; Chapter 2: Admin Tools; Data Loader; When to use Data Loader; Strategy to import data; Identifying data sources; Data preparation; Testing the data import; Analyzing the test import; Final data import; Validating the import; Using Data Loader for data export; Using Data Loader for uploading attachments; The Import wizard; When to use the Import wizard; Notes on data import; Undoing data import; Third-party tools for data integration; Force.com Integrated Development Environment (IDE); IDE communication; Force.com perspective; Problems view

Execute Anonymous viewApex Test Runner view; Schema explorer; Deployment; Force.com Migration Tool; AppExchange-cloud application marketplace; DupeCatcher -- real-time deduplication; Milestones PM -- project and task management; Salesforce CRM dashboards; Salesforce for Twitter and Facebook (v4); Appirio Contact Sync for Salesforce and Google Apps; Ribbit for Salesforce; SnapShot Change And Release Management; Salesforce Adoption Dashboards (2011); Survey Force; Draggin' Role; Find Nearby -- Accounts, Contacts, Leads -- Managed, PE/EE/UE/DE; AppExchange Dashboard Pack

Action Plans -- v3 -- Unmanaged -- EE, UE, and DEProject and Issue Management; CloudConverter for Force.com; Opportunity Planning Wall; Data Loader -- Salesforce integration; Mass Edit + Mass Update + Mass Delete; Implementation Cloud -- project management app; S-Docs -- free document generator (PDF, Word, Excel); CMSForce 2; FormFactory quotes and invoices; Chatter Usage Dashboards -- Force.com Labs; FinancialForce Accounting for Salesforce; Professional Services Automation -- PSA for Salesforce; CVM Supplier Central Enterprise Edition; CVM Supplier Locator; Summary

Chapter 3: Making Best Use of Salesforce ObjectsUnderstanding the field types; Basic non-relational field types; Relational field types; Identity fields; System fields; The Name field; Additional database features; Considerations for relationships; Types of objects; Standard objects; Account; Contact; Lead; Campaign; Opportunity; Forecast; Quote; Product and price book; Case; Custom objects; Design approach; Implementation steps; Tips; Record types; Summary; Chapter 4: Understanding Analytics; Report types; Tips and considerations for report types; Defining report types

""Force.com Tips and Tricks"" is not a complete reference guide for the Force.com platform development but it is a time-saving tips and tricks book that can be very helpful and handy for novice as well as experienced developers. This book would be very useful for Force.com developers who want to extend their Force.com applications using Flex, Apex, and Visualforce. ""Force.com Tips and Tricks"" is not a bible or a complete reference for the Force.com platform development. The time- saving tips and tricks make this book handy for novice as well as experienced developers. This is basically for F.

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