Project: Salesforce Conference Management App

Conference Management App: Salesforce Project

Project Description:

We will create a conference Management Application that allows conference administrators to manage all the aspects of a conference:

-Sessions

-Speakers

-Hotels

Technical Elements:

-Creating custom Objects

-Using declarative features of the platform to create an Application, create Tabs and optimize Page Layouts.

-Creating Apex Classes

-Using SOQL and DML to query, create, update and delete data
-Creating Trigger

-Creating Visualforce Pages

-Creating Custom Extensions and Custom Controllers

-Using JavaScript in Visualforce Pages

-Creating Batch Processes

Data Model:

Objects:

-Session

-Speaker

Relationship between the 2 objects:

-Many to many relationship

Junction Object:

-Session Speaker

Fields:

Step 1: Creating the Data Model

Step 1: Create the Conference Session Object
 1.Login into your Developer Edition account
 2.Click the Setup link (upper right corner)
 3.In the left navigation, select Build > Create > Objects 
4.Click New Custom Object, and define the Session object as follows (accept the default values for the
properties that are not mentioned below):
Label: Session
Plural Label: Sessions
Object Name: Session
Record Name: Session Name
Data Type: Text
5.Click Save
6.In the Custom Fields & Relationships section, click New 
7.Create a Session Date field defined as follows:
 Data Type: Date/Time
 Field Label: Session Date
 Field Name: Session_Date 
Click Next, Next, Save & New
8.Create a Description field defined as follows:
Data Type: Text Area (Long)
Field Label: Description
Field Name: Description
Click Next, Next, Save & New
9.Create a Level field defined as follows:
 Data Type: Picklist
 Field Label: Level
 Values: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced (specify each value on its own row)
 Field Name: Level
Click Next, Next, Save

Step 2: Create the Speaker Object
1.In Setup mode, select Build > Create > Objects
2.Click New Custom Object, and define the Speaker object as follows (accept the default values for the
properties that are not mentioned below): 
Label: Speaker
Plural Label: Speakers
Object Name: Speaker
Record Name: Speaker Number
Data Type: Auto Number
Display Format: SP-{00000}
Starting Number: 1
3.Click Save
4.In the Custom Fields & Relationships section, click New, and create a First Name field defined as
follows:
Data Type: Text
Field Label: First Name
Length: 30
Field Name: First_Name
Click Next, Next, Save & New
5.Create a Last Name field defined as follows:
Data Type: Text
Field Label: Last Name
Length: 30
Field Name: Last_Name
Click Next, Next, Save & New
6.Create an Email field defined as follows:
Data Type: Email
Field Label: Email
Field Name: Email
Click Next, Next, Save & New
7.Create a Bio field defined as follows:
Data Type: Text Area (Long)
Field Label: Bio
Field Name: Bio
Click Next, Next, Save