Guidance of how to build your first Salesforce App
What are Salesforce Applications? You can think of them as solutions that help you use the most of Salesforce features with perfect application to boost your business. But this doesn’t sound clear enough, in many ways it is similar to any other app on your Mobile right now that has a service to accomplish, each application has a different use, like your Calculator, your Facetime or Facebook app and your favorite food ordering app. By the end of the day you find you want and need to do a lot more with your phone, and you can find new apps that let you, and that’s exactly what Salesforce Apps are for.
Now think about Salesforce. When you first log in to your instance of Salesforce, you’ll see it’s clearly got the fundamentals of contact management covered. But when you connect to the AppExchange Store a whole new set of possibilities open up. There are apps to help your organization with everything from donation tracking and credit card processing, to managing volunteers. Whatever your core needs may be, there’s probably an app that gets it done quite well.
So let’s dive in to see how they work!
These are the fundamental structure and definition of Apps inside of Salesforce platform:
- A salesforce application is a group of tabs that work as a unit to provide functionality
- A salesforce application is a logical container for all of the objects, tabs, process, and services associated with a given business function
- We can customize existing apps to match the way to work or build new apps by grouping standard and custom tabs.
- A force.com custom app consists of name, description, an ordered list of tabs, and optionally a custom logo and a landing page.
- Salesforce provides standard apps such as Sales, Call center, Marketing, and Community etc….
- Users can switch between apps using the force.com app drop-down menu at the top right corner of every page.
- There are two types of salesforce application one is Custom App and the other one is Service cloud console.
Are you Excited to try to build your First app? So what are waiting for let’s start!
Step 1: Create your first Lightning Page in Lightning App Builder
- In the Setup menu, type and click on Lightning App Builder
- Click New under Lightning Pages to start Lightning App Builder
- In the Create a New Lightning Page pop-up, set the following values, and click Create:
- Label: Field Sales App
- Template: choose the suitable template for your need
Step 2: Explaining the UI of Lightning App Builder
And as simple as that you have created your first app that you will find in the app launcher after the activation.