Intro to force.com, from the Kerala salesforce user group.

1. Salesforce Kerala Developer User
Group Meetup
Shivanath Devinarayanan
Salesforce Evangelist
@shivanathd

2. #SalesforceKerala

3. Agenda
 What is this community about?
 Intro to Force.com
 Point and Click
 Programmatic Approach
 Best practices
 Tools , Tips and Tricks
 Questions

4. What is this community about?
 Learn on the cloud
 Developer peers
 Training & Certification
 Forum to discuss
 Opportunity to speak and collaborate
 Learn from the best
 Latest about Salesforce.com and Force.com

5. Intro to
 Platform as a Service and Multi-tenant
 Apex - world’s 1st on demand language
 5X faster Development and 1/2th cost !
 Compilation on the cloud
 All you need is a browser
 Salesforce.com v/s Force.com

6. Point and Click Development
 Objects & Tabs
 Schema Builder
 Formula fields
 Validation Rules
 Workflow Rules & Approval Processes
 Email Alerts
 Outbound Messages
 Field Updates
 Page Layouts
 Chatter

7. Sign Up for Dev Account
 http://developer.force.com/join
Login to salesforce
 http://login.salesforce.com

8. Programmatic Approach
 Triggers
 Classes
 Test Classes
 Web service Classes
 VF Controllers
 API
 SOQL & SOSL
 Governor limits
 Sandboxes and Deployment
 VisualForce
 Force.com Sites

9. Best practices
 When to use WorkFlow V/s Trigger
 Try the AppExchange
 Mind the governors
 Bulkify your trigger
 Avoid SOQL in Loops
 Always write test methods
 Know when to do it outside Salesforce

10. Where to go ?
 Developer Force forum : http://developer.force.com
 Jeff Douglas blog : http://blog.jeffdouglas.com
 Salesforce Kerala Developer User Group !
 Twitter #askforce
 StackExchange : salesforce.stackexchange.com
Tools
 Force.com IDE
 Workbench : http://workbench.developerforce.com
 Salesforce.com Utility Belt
 DataLoader

11. What are your
thoughts?
shivanathd @shivanathd shivanathd mail@shivanathd.com