Force Platform Fundamentals: An Introduction to Custom Application Development in the Cloud

Chapter 4. Building a Simple App

In this chapter ... Becoming Familiar with the Setup Area Introducing Apps Introducing Objects Introducing Tabs Becoming Familiar with Setup Detail Pages and Related Lists Introducing Fields Look at What We’ve Done

Just as traditional programming books first teach you how to write a simple “Hello World” program before getting into more complicated things, in this chapter, we’re going to create a very simple version of the Recruiting app to show you just how easy it is to get started with the Force Platform. Along the way we’ll orient ourselves to the platform’s user interface (where we’ll be doing most of our work), and we’ll learn how to create and configure our first custom object. Although easy and straightforward, ...