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

Becoming Familiar with the Setup Area

Since we’re going to spend most of our time working in the Setup area of the platform, let’s first become familiar with what it is and how to navigate to it.

The Setup area is an administrative tool and user preferences area, all in one. We perform almost every task we need to create our app in the Setup area, so most of the “Try It Out” sections of the book are going to start with an instruction like, “Click Setup Create Apps.” This is a short way of saying:

1.	Click the Setup link in the top-right corner ...