Glossary

App

A collection of Force Platform components such as tabs, reports, and dashboards that address a specific business need. Short for “application.”

AppExchange directory

A Web directory where hundreds of AppExchange apps are available to Salesforce customers to review, demo, comment upon, and/or install. Developers can submit their apps for listing on AppExchange if they wish to share them with the community.

Application programming interface (API)

The interface that a computer system, library, or application provides in order to allow other computer programs to request services from it and exchange data between them.

Approval process

An automated process your organization can use to approve records on the platform. An approval process ...

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