Course Number: SFDC.401
Duration: 5 days (full-day sessions) OR Weekend/Evening sessions

Training Overview: Building Applications with Force.com & Visualforce is a must for application developers who want to create custom Force.com applications or customize existing Salesforce applications. Participants will learn how to use the declarative “clicks not code” capabilities of the Force.com platform to create new applications as well as Visualforce pages and components to create custom interfaces.

This course is for application developers who want an in-depth understanding of how to use the declarative capabilities of the Force.com platform to create custom applications and Visualforce Pages to create custom interfaces. This course provides the foundation for developers who need to know how to leverage these capabilities for rapid development and to prepare for learning the Apex programming language and Visualforce controllers.

Location and Pricing: Most of our courses are conducted online OR at our training facility and are customized to meet our students needs. We also provide customized onsite training at our clients' locations. Pricing for an online course depends on if its a weekend/evening course or a full day course. The weekend/evening courses are most cost-effective as they are spread over a period of weeks giving you ample time to complete the hands-on exercises. To receive a customized proposal that will fit your schedule and price quote, please contact us 

Training Prerequisites: This training course is ideal for developers who are new to Salesforce CRM and the Force.com platform. It is recommended, but not required, that participants have some familiarity with Salesforce applications before attending the class as well as basic HTML and/or XML skills.

Training format: This class is 50% hands-on, 50% lecture, with one-on-one dedicated time-slots with the instructor.

Training Materials: All students receive a copy of related courseware / material.

Software Needed on Each Student PC:

• Either of the following browsers:
• Windows® Internet Explorer® versions 6, 7, and 8
• Mozilla® Firefox® version 3.6
• Google® Chrome version 10
• Google Chrome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer 6
• Apple® Safari® version 5.0.x

• Build and customize multiuser software-as-a-service(SaaS) applications with just clicks
• Define the application’s data model
• Customize the user interface
• Create advanced workflows and validations
• Automate business processes
• Manage your data
• Develop a custom user interface with Visualforce

• Designing Applications on Force.com
• Learn about factors to consider when building a data model
• Learn about factors to consider when building a data model
• Develop custom objects and fields, encrypted fields, field help, and field history tracking
• Use master detail, lookup, and many-to-many relationships
• Create a user interface for custom application using the Custom Object tab, Page Layout, and Customization options
• Set field attributes on the page layout
• Use the Custom Object queue and event-based workflow rules with field update actions
• Develop custom formulas and validation rules
• Designing Applications for Multiple Users
• Learn about factors to consider when designing applications for multiple users
• : Create profiles, understand what a profile controls (including data access), and customize profiles to manage the user experience
• Customize the user experience with record types and page layouts
• Control access to records
• Employ OWD, sharing rules and levels, roles, public groups, and manual share
• Apply profiles, OWDs, role hierarchy, and sharing to restrict access to sensitive data
• Apply OWDs, public groups, and manual sharing to create conditional access to dat
• Analyze suitability of FLS, page layouts, and record types to satisfy business requirements
• Implementing Business Processes
• Use the vlookup, regex, ischanged, isnew, and priorvalue functions to build business processes
• Use validation rules to enforce conditional required behavior
• Use functions to enforce data format and data consistency
• Implement multistep approval workflows and escalations to automate business processes
• Create parallel approval workflows and workflow approvals with dynamic approval routing
• Use outbound messages as part of an approval workflow
• Establish approval workflow criteria with crossobject formulas
• Set up field history tracking to audit processes
• Learn techniques to prevent or record data changes
• Learn about factors to consider when building a data model
• Develop custom objects and fields, encrypted fields, field help, and field history tracking
• Use master detail, lookup, and many-to-many relationships
• Create a user interface for custom applications using the Custom Object tab, Page Layout, and Customization options
• Set field attributes on the page layout
• Use the Custom Object queue and event-based workflow rules with field update actions
• Develop custom formulas and validation rules
  
• Managing Data
• Learn when and how to use upsert
• Use data management tools and the capabilities of API-based tools
• Configure the Data Loader via command line
• Encrypt passwords using encrypt.bat
• Use the Data Loader to create mapping files andto upsert data
• Visualforce Pages
• Learn about the capabilities of the Visualforceframework
• Incorporate Visualforce pages into Salesforce
• Construct expression bindings and incorporate Salesforce into Visualforce pages with Visualforce tags
• Use Visualforce tags to create page layouts, input forms, output tables, custom components, and more
• Create partial page refreshes on JavaScript events
• Learn about the functionality that comes with Visualforce standard controllers
• Find out when Apex is required for creating