Apps in Salesforce may seem a difficult topic for many beginners. However, you can easily have a grasp over tabs and apps concepts. Hence, we are here with yet another blog to help you. We will discuss various aspects of Apps and Tabs that are widely used in Salesforce. Make sure to read every section and have a proper understanding of various terminologies.

What are Apps in Salesforce?

Application, commonly referred to as App, is a particular tool or program used to complete a specific set of functions. Moreover, you can use as a container to store all the tabs and objects along with their functionality. Various tabs form a group that eventually works together and performs multiple responsibilities of the app. There is no doubt in the fact that it is quite an important part of the ecosystem. In Salesforce, we increase the scope of this term and include other things as well. However, the basic idea behind it simply consists of 3 major components,

1. Logo
2. Name
3. Ordered Set of Tabs

Further, if we take the elementary app, it only contains the Default logo and a Home tab. Hence, it is not rocket science to understand all the concepts based on apps in Salesforce.

We have two types of apps in Salesforce,

Standard Apps

As the name suggests, these apps are already included in the Salesforce instant, and you get default access to them. Users have a little bit of control over making necessary changes and get the best output. Thus, you get relevant results depending on the requirements of your organization. However, some aspects like description, label, and logo are fixed, and you can’t change them.

Example- App Launcher, Sales, Community, Salesforce Chatter, Marketing, etc.

Custom Apps

Custom Apps are user-oriented and are designed to fulfill specific demands of a business or organization. On top of it, you can combine standard and custom tabs to create a unique app accordingly. The best thing is that you can change the logo and other details in the future if necessary.

Console Apps

If you want a more advanced UI experience for the project, Console Apps has got you covered. These are better as users can now experience highly paced service environments and other functionalities. Moreover, it allows them to make changes and update configurations in a single window. All these will take effect without the need to refresh the webpage each time.

Although, you have the option of a partial reload that works wonders to update the whole page. For better accessibility, it contains chat and call features like LiveAgent and Softphone, respectively.

Tabs in Salesforce

A tab is basically a UI component that allows you to view all the information regarding Salesforce instantly. Also, it has information like data of objects contained inside the application. We categorize tabs into 4 different sections

• Standard Object Tabs

You can use it to display data present in standard objects

• Custom Object Tabs

These tabs are used to access data related to Custom objects. Although, the functioning is quite similar to the standard object tabs.

• Web Tabs

In case you have any external webpage in the Salesforce environment, Web tabs help you to display its data.

• Visualforce Tabs

Finally, data on the Visualforce page can open up through Visualforce tabs.

Conclusion

We hope that you now understand the basic concept of various Tabs and Apps in Salesforce. You will get in-depth knowledge of the same once you start using them. Hence, it is important to explore various apps and tabs to generate astonishing results.

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