6. User Interfaces

Force.com’s native user interface provides a consistent and simple way to search, create, update, and delete database records. It combines the definition of database objects with user interface metadata such as page layouts to produce user interfaces through configuration rather than code. For developers and administrators, this makes customization straightforward. For users, the uniformity means that learning to use one screen in Force.com provides the experience to learn all screens with minimal incremental effort.

For applications that require a greater level of control over the appearance and behavior of the user interface, Visualforce offers a solution. Visualforce is a technology in the Force.com platform for building ...

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