Chapter 5. Workflow and Approvals

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As you have already seen, the Force Platform development environment can really boost your productivity by automatically implementing functionality you need in your applications. One of the strongest examples of this type of productivity benefit is provided by workflows and approvals.

Workflows allow you to implement automated actions, based on changes in your Force Platform data. You can specify a number of different actions, and limit the execution of those actions on conditions defined by the workflow.

In the real world, many business processes follow a standard set of steps. Based on the business conditions associated with an event, Force Platform workflow ...

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