Chapter 8. Creating a Property Management Application

At this point, we've seen many different aspects of development on the Salesforce1 Platform and should be fairly familiar with both declarative and programmatic solutions to our everyday problems, as well as when to use which solution. In this chapter, we're going to mesh many of the things we have previously learned into a single application on the Salesforce1 Platform after doing a quick analysis run-through.

A big selling point for salesforce.com and the Salesforce1 Platform in general is how transparent the data is and how easy it is to run complex reports using the report builder. Although the process of building a report is outside the scope of this book, it is an important consideration when designing a data model to know your reporting capabilities. You don't want to spend time and effort into designing a perfectly running application that you can't run any meaningful reports on.

So here's the agenda—we're going to discuss what...