Do you feel frustrated with the current Salesforce documentation?
Did you research Communities for hours without any tangible results?
You have no idea where to start?
You have no idea about Apex and Visualforce?
You don’t want to be locked into the templates provided by Salesforce?
This book about Salesforce Communities will help you to:
- Understand what is possible in Communities
- Decide which license you should use
- Develop a Community step-by-step
- Avoid pitfalls and save time
- Skip the ground work by using the author’s template
Issues on Community development handled in this guide:
- The most efficient way to setup Communities
- Why to choose tabs over templates
- How to setup your development environment
- The most efficient way to setup Communities
- How to change existing looks
- How to include jQuery or any other JavaScript library
- How to completely customize everything
- How to move the Community from Sandbox to Production
Special section for administration:
- How to easily add members
- How to easily add moderators
- How to let the members see only their own data
- Troubleshooting
A personal note from the author
I'm a web developer who grew up in Germany and now lives in beautiful Minnesota. Shortly after I got hired for my current job, my boss saw the possibilities of Salesforce Community and didn't skip a beat to put that on my plate.
"Michael, we barely know Salesforce, have no idea about Communities, but we want it implemented asap. We have great plans and here are our requirements!"
This guide is the result of all the headache and hardship but also great breakthroughs and victories while working with Community. It's a great journey, a steep learning curve and lot's of rabbit holes, but the journey was rewarding and very much worth the effort.