Friday, September 7, 2012

Get started with Force.com

So far we got the theory in place. We learnt the difference between SalesForce.com and Force.com, got introduced to different parts of the Force.com platform and learnt the architecture behind the Platform. And I suppose you got your free Developer Edition Account of the platform. It is time to "see and feel" the powerful Platform!

Go to http://developer.force.com/, click on DE Login and continue with your credentials. You are taken to a page where you will see many different menus and links. We are not going through all of them at once in this article. Let us just see how to get started with an application to get the feel of developing in the Force.com Platform.

If you have just logged in and haven't clicked around too much, you should be seeing the following section in the page displayed. If that is not where you are, click on your name (top right corner) and select Setup from the drop-down menu.


To create an application, the first step you do is click on the 'Add App' button. The following window pops up ready for us to fill in App Name and Label.

As my learning exercise I will be creating and experimenting with variety of applications. I will not go deep into those applications as such. My articles will be mainly covering the platform features in detail, not my applications. Hence to experiment anything you read in my blog articles, you will need to come up with your own application.

Clicking on 'Create' button added my application called Worksheet Homework and also added a custom object called Worksheet. The platform also added a tab at the top called 'Worksheets' for easy access.

As you can see, just a click or two, I have my application up and running in very simple form. Much more needs to be done to get this application really functional but as a getting started step, wasn't it quick and easy?

Let us see all other features of the Force.com platform in our future articles.

Happy cloud computing using Salesforce!

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