Reusing the existing Standard Objects
by Andrew Fawcett
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
- Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- 1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application
- Required organizations
- Introducing the book's sample application
- Package types and benefits
- Creating your first managed package
- Package dependencies and uploading
- Becoming a Salesforce partner and benefits
- Introduction to AppExchange and listings
- Installing and testing your package
- Licensing
- Providing support
- Customer metrics
- Trialforce and Test Drive
- Summary
- 2. Leveraging Platform Features
- Packaging and upgradable components
- Understanding the custom field features
- Understanding the available security features
- Platform APIs
- Localization and translation
- Building customizable user interfaces
- E-mail customization with e-mail templates
- Process Builder, Workflow and Flow
- Social features and mobile
- Summary
- 3. Application Storage
- Mapping out end user storage requirements
- Understanding the different storage types
- Reusing the existing Standard Objects
- Importing and exporting data
- Options for replicating and archiving data
- External data sources
- Summary
- 4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns
- 5. Application Service Layer
- 6. Application Domain Layer
- Introducing the Domain layer pattern
- Implementation design guidelines
- Domain class template
- Implementing Domain Trigger logic
- Implementing custom Domain logic
- Object-oriented programming
- Creating a compliance application framework
- An Apex interface example
- Testing the Domain layer
- Calling the Domain layer
- Updating the FormulaForce package
- Summary
- 7. Application Selector Layer
- 8. User Interface
- Which devices should you target?
- Introducing Salesforce Standard UIs and Lightning
- Leveraging the Salesforce standard UIs
- Generating downloadable content
- Generating printable content
- Client server communication
- Managing limits
- Object and field-level security
- Managing performance and response times
- Using the Service layer and database access
- Considerations for using JavaScript libraries
- Custom Publisher Actions
- Creating websites and communities
- Mobile application strategy
- Custom reporting and the Analytics API
- Updating the FormulaForce package
- Summary
- 9. Lightning
- Building a basic Lightning user interface
- Lightning architecture
- FormulaForce Lightning Components
- Making components customizable
- Integrating with Lightning Experience
- Lightning Out and Visualforce
- Integrating with communities
- Testing
- Updating the FormulaForce package
- Summary
- 10. Providing Integration and Extensibility
- Reviewing your integration and extensibility needs
- Force.com platform APIs for integration
- Application integration APIs
- Exposing Lightning Components
- Extending Process Builder and Visualflow
- Alignment with Force.com extensibility features
- Extending the application logic with Apex interfaces
- Summary
- 11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes
- 12. Unit Testing
- 13. Source Control and Continuous Integration
- Development workflow and infrastructure
- Developing with Source Control
- Hooking up Continuous Integration
- Releasing from Source Control
- Automated regression testing
- Summary
- Index
When designing your object model, a good knowledge of the existing Standard Objects and their features is the key to knowing when and when not to reference them. Keep in mind the following points when considering the use of Standard Objects:
- From a data storage perspective: Ignoring Standard Objects creates a potential data duplication and integration effort for your end users if they are already using similar Standard Objects as pre-existing Salesforce customers. Remember that adding additional custom fields to the Standard Objects via your package will not increase the data storage consumption for those objects.
- From a license cost perspective: Conversely, referencing some Standard Objects might cause additional license costs for your users, since not all are available to the users without additional licenses from Salesforce. Make sure that you understand the differences between Salesforce (CRM) and Salesforce Platform licenses with respect to the Standard Objects available. Currently, the Salesforce Platform license provides Accounts and Contacts; however, to use Opportunity or Product objects, a Salesforce (CRM) license is needed by the user. Refer to the Salesforce documentation for the latest details on these.
Use your user personas to define what Standard Objects your users use and reference them via lookups, Apex code, and Visualforce accordingly. You may wish to use extension packages and/or dynamic Apex and SOQL to make these kind of references optional. Since Developer Edition orgs have all these licenses and objects available (although in a limited quantity), make sure you review your package dependencies before clicking on the Upload button each time to check for unintentional references.
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