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Salesforce User Interface: How to Add a New Lightning Application in your Salesforce Org

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Looking for Salesforce Training & HandsOn Projects? Trailblazer Profile  |  LinkedIn  |  Salesforce Blog  |  Facebook  |  Youtube Channel  |  WhatsApp Community In this article, we will discuss a no-code approach of adding a lightning app for our Salesforce Org. This approach is helpful to launch any Salesforce Object (Standard or Custom) as an application without using any code. In the upcoming sections we will see the detailed steps to configure SObject to launch as a Lightning App.  Create a Custom Object ["Students"]   We can add a new Custom Object “Students” as shown in the steps below- Step-1: Click on “Object Manager” Step-2: Click “Create” and select “Custom Object” to launch a “New Custom Object” screen Step-3: Specify Label for the object, let’s call it “Students” Step-4: Select “First Name” as a record identifier. This is just a demo so anything works just fine but in a more sensible solution I would rather choose “Student Id” an auto-gene

Salesforce Schema Builder: Managing Salesforce SObjects Schema using Schema Builder

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Looking for Salesforce Training & HandsOn Projects? Schema Builder is another visual tool available on the Salesforce Platform that enables users to work with Salesforce Schema in a more efficient way than using web interfaces. It helps analyze complex data models visually since it offers a canvas where we can analyze SObjects and their respective relationships.   In this blog, we will unleash the power of Schema Builder and the functions it offers to manage Schema. Launch Schema Builder   To launch Schema Builder, go to Setup and search for “Schema Builder” Click “Schema Builder” to launch it On the canvas of Schema Builder, we can see the following layer of elements- Step-1: Shows toolbar that offers useful functions to work with canvas & its items Step-2: Shows the list of available SObjects under “Objects” Tab and Field Types under “Elements” Tab Step-3: Shows “Data Model Visual Designer” where we can analyze the SObjects & their respective relation

Salesforce REST API: Working with Salesforce SObjects using REST API

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Looking for Salesforce Training & HandsOn Projects? Trailblazer Profile  |  LinkedIn  |  Salesforce Blog  |  Facebook  |  Youtube Channel  |  WhatsApp Community As most modern platform and programming languages supports the usages for REST API based development methodologies. Almost every programming language provides libraries & functions to ease working with REST APIs. Having access to REST APIs Endpoints for Salesforce Metadata opens a whole new arena of possibilities for application developers who now can design automated solutions targeting the Salesforce Platform in any programming language they are comfortable in. In this article, we explore how we can interact with Salesforce SObjects using REST API Endpoints available for the Salesforce Platform. REST API Endpoints for Salesforce offers CRUD operations but in this article, we will discuss the Read Operations on Salesforce Standard & Custom SObjects. Operation-1: Get the List of Salesforce SObjects Preparing