Salesforce Campus Tour - Developer Intro

Salesforce 2014
Campus Tour
James Ward
@_JamesWard

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World’s #1 CRM company*
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admired in
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to work for
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2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014
4TH YEAR IN A
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Demand is Growing Across Multiple Roles
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Force.com
Developer
Technical
Architect
Solutions
Architect
Principal
Consultant
Business
Analyst
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of companies moving
to cloud
Demand growth for all
Salesforce Talent
Demand growth for
Salesforce
Developers

Salesforce Skills Earn Top Paying Jobs
Salary Average
Job Silicon Valley National
Force.com Data Analyst $95k $65k
Salesforce.com Administrators $100k $80k
Global Salesforce Administrators $120k $95k
Force.com Developers $125k $98k
Certified Force.com Developers $135k $115k
Sr. Force.com Developers $150k $125k
Force.com Architects $170k $140k
Force.com Solution Architects $200k $165k
Salesforce CRM Business Analysts $140k $110k
Salesforce CRM Program Managers $185k $135k
Salesforce Implementation Consultants $220k $175k
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Campus Events
Internships &
Recruiting Curriculum
Mentorship &
Experience
Classroom speakers
Workshops
Hackathons
Business Competitions
University
Conferences
Student User Groups
Company visits/tours
Internship Program
Recruitment
Courseware
Curriculum
Student/Faculty
licenses
Training & certification
Capstone projects
Entrepreneurship
Research projects
Student Ambassadors
Academic Program Components

Salesforce Campus Tour
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Salesforce Certifications
Key Skills Preparation
• Manage users, data, and security
• Maintain and customize Sales Cloud and Service Cloud
applications
• Build reports, dashboards, and workflow
Administration Essentials for New
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• Force.com Fundamentals Book
• Build custom applications using point-and-click
• Design the data model, user interface, business logic,
and security for custom applications
• Design reports, dashboards, and portals
Building Applications with Force.com
and Visualforce (DEV401)
• Udacity.com
• Develop custom applications using Apex & Visualforce
• Manage the development lifecycle and environments
• Write and execute comprehensive test plans
Apex and Visualforce Controllers
(DEV501)
• Introduction to Visualforce (YouTube)
• www.sfdc99.com

Salesforce FutureForce Program
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Lets Build an App!
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Two Approaches to Development
Declarative Approach Programmatic Approach
Visualforce Pages
Visualforce Components
Apex Controllers
Apex Triggers
Metadata API
REST API
Bulk API
Page Layouts
Record Types
Formula Fields
Validation Rules
Workflows and Approvals
Custom Objects
Custom Fields
Relationships
User
Interface
Business
Logic
Data
Model

Salesforce Objects
Similar to Tables (with more metadata)
Standard objects out-of-the-box
• Account, Contact, Opportunity, …
You can add custom fields to standard objects
•Rating__c, Twitter__c, …
You can create custom objects
• i.e. Speaker__c, Session__c, Hotel__c
Custom objects have standard fields
• Id, Owner, LastModifiedDate, LastModifiedBy, …

Rich Data Types
Auto Number
Formula
Roll-Up Summary
Lookup
Master-Detail
Checkbox
Currency
Date
Picklist (multi select)
Text
Text Area
Text Area (Long)
Text Area (Rich)
Text (Encrypted)
URL
 Date/Time
 Email
 Geolocation
 Number
 Percent
 Phone
 Picklist

Modeling One-to-Many Relationships
An expense has one
expense report
An expense report has
many expenses

Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships
A speaker can have
many session
assignments
A session can have
many speaker
assignments

Id
All objects are given an Id field
Globally unique Id is assigned at record creation
"Primary key" used to access records

Record Name
Human readable / logical identifier
Text or Auto Number ("Intro to Apex" or SP-00002)
Uniqueness not enforced

When you create an Object, you get…
A CRUD user interface
Instant Mobile App access (Salesforce1)
A REST API
Rich Metadata
Indexed search

What's an Application?
Group of tabs that provide easy access to related features
Salesforce comes with standards apps
•Sales, Call Center, Marketing, …
You can create your own apps
Tabs can be:
•Object pages, Visualforce pages, Canvas app

Page Layouts
Let you customize all aspects of the layout, related lists, …

What is Apex?
Salesforce platform language
Cloud based compiling, debugging and unit testing
Object-oriented
Strongly typed
Classes and Interfaces
Similar to Java

Apex and Java
Same
Primitive data types
Flow control (if, for, while, …)
Exception handling
Collections: Lists, Sets, …
Different
Case insensitive
Single quote strings: 'Joe'
Id data type
Built-in support for data access

Apex Class
public class MortgageCalculator {
public Double amount { get; set; }
public Double rate { get; set; }
public Integer years { get; set; }
public Double calculateMonthlyPayment() {
Integer months = years * 12;
Double monthlyRate = rate / (12 * 100);
return amount * (monthlyRate/
(1 - Math.pow(1 + monthlyRate, -months)));
}
}

Development Tools
Developer Console
Force.com IDE (Eclipse Plugin)
Mavens Mate (Sublime Plugin)
Force CLI

Developer Console
Browser Based IDE
Create Classes, Triggers, Pages
Execute Apex Anonymously
Execute SOQL Queries
Run Unit Tests
Review Debug Logs

Accessing Data with
SOQL and DML

SOQL
Salesforce Object Query language
Similar to SQL
Streamlined syntax to traverse object relationships
Built into Apex

SELECT Id, Name, Phone
FROM Contact

FROM Contact
WHERE Phone <> null

FROM Contact
WHERE Phone <> null
AND Name LIKE '%rose%'

FROM Contact
WHERE Phone <> null
ORDER BY Name

SELECT Id, Name, Phone, Account.Name
FROM Contact
WHERE Phone <> null
ORDER BY Name

SELECT Id, Name, Phone, Account.Name
FROM Contact
WHERE Phone <> null
ORDER BY Name
LIMIT 50

Executing SOQL in the Developer Console

Inlining SOQL in Apex
Integer i = [select count() from Session__c];

String level = 'Advanced';
List<Session__c> sessions =
[SELECT Name, Level__c FROM Session__c
WHERE Level__c = :level];

List<String> levels = new List<String>();
levels.add('Intermediate');
levels.add('Advanced');
List<Session__c> sessions =
[SELECT Name, Level__c FROM Session__c
WHERE Level__c IN :levels];

for (Speaker__c s : [select email__c from Speaker__c])
{
System.debug(s.email__c);
}

insert
Session__c session = new Session__c();
session.name = 'Apex 101';
session.level__c = 'Beginner';
insert session;

insert
Session__c session = new Session__c(
name = 'Apex 201',
level__c = 'Intermediate'
);
insert session;

update
String oldName = 'Apex 101';
String newName = 'Apex for Beginners';
Session__c session =
[SELECT Id, Name FROM Session__c
WHERE Name=:oldName];
session.name = newName;
update session;

delete
String name = 'Testing 501';
Session__c session =
SELECT Name FROM Session__c
WHERE Name=:name];
delete session;

Trigger
Apex code executed on database events
Before or after:
• Insert
•Update
•Delete
•Undelete

Before or After?
Before
•Update or validate values before they are saved to the database
•Example: Prevent double-booking of a speaker
After
•Need access to values set by the database (Id, lastUpdated, …)
•Example: Send speaker confirmation email

Bulk Mode
Trigger API designed to support bulk operations
•Data Import, Bulk API, etc.
Triggers work on bulk of records, not single records
Context variables provide access to data:
•Trigger.old and Trigger.new (List)
•Trigger.oldMap and Trigger.newMap (Map)

Example
Trigger on Account (after insert) {
for (Account account : Trigger.new) {
Case case = new Case();
case.Subject = 'Mail Welcome Kit';
case.Account.Id = account.Id;
insert case;
}
}

Model-View-Controller
Model
Data + Rules
Controller
View-Model
interactions
View
UI code
 Separation of concerns
– No data access code in view
– No view code in controller
 Benefits
– Minimize impact of changes
– More reusable components

Model-View-Controller in Salesforce
View
• Metadata
• Standard Pages
• Visualforce Pages
• External apps
Controller
• Standard Controllers
• Controller Extensions
• Custom Controllers
(all Apex)
Model
• Metadata
• Objects
• Triggers (Apex)
• Classes (Apex)

What's a Visualforce Page?
The View in MVC architecture
HTML page with tags executed at the server-side to generate dynamic content
Similar to JSP and ASP
Can leverage JavaScript and CSS libraries

Expression Language
Anything inside of {! } is evaluated as an expression
Same expression language as Formulas
Same global variables are available. For example:
• {!$User.FirstName} {!$User.LastName}

Example 1
<apex:page>
<h1>Hello, {!$User.FirstName}</h1>
</apex:page>

Example 2
<apex:page standardController="Contact">
<apex:form>
Standard controller
<apex:inputField value="{!contact.firstname}"/>
<apex:inputField value="{!contact.lastname}"/>
<apex:commandButton action="{!save}" value="Save"/>
</apex:form>
</apex:page>
object
Function in
standard controller

Standard Controller
A standard controller is available for all objects
•You don't have to write it!
Provides standard CRUD operations
•Create, Update, Delete, Field Access, etc.
Can be extended with more capabilities (next module)
Uses id in URL to access object

Component Library
Presentation tags
– <apex:pageBlock title="My Account Contacts">
Fine grained data tags
•<apex:outputField value="{!contact.firstname}">
•<apex:inputField value="{!contact.firstname}">
Coarse grained data tags
•<apex:detail>
•<apex:pageBlockTable>
Action tags
•<apex:commandButton action="{!save}" >

Email
Templates
Embedded in Page
Layouts
Generate PDFs
Custom Tabs
Mobile
Interfaces
Page Overrides
Where can I use Visualforce?

Custom Controllers
Custom class written in Apex
Can override standard behavior
Can add new capabilities

Defining a Controller Extension
<apex:page standardController="Speaker__c"
extensions="SpeakerCtrlExt">
Provides basic
CRUD
Overrides standard
actions and/or provide
additional capabilities

Anatomy of a Controller Extension
public class SpeakerCtrlExt {
private final Speaker__c speaker;
private ApexPages.StandardController stdController;
public SpeakerCtrlExt (ApexPages.StandardController ctrl) {
this.stdController = ctrl;
this.speaker = (Speaker__c)ctrl.getRecord();
}
// method overrides
// custom methods
}

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