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Nick G.Nick G. 

Force.com Workbook - Merchandise object vs Products

Hello,

 

 

I'm working my way through the Force.com workbook in creating the basic warehouse application. It starts by creating a custom object to track merchandise (item) details/quantities/etc. I'm wanting to use something like this in our enterprise edition, but I'm just curious as to why one would want to create this separate object rather than just expanding the Product object which is already a part of the SF editions?

 

Any thoughts?

 

Nick

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bob_buzzardbob_buzzard

"Force.com" is the key to this - the Product standard object is part of the CRM application which would require a Salesforce license.  Force.com is a lower cost license for creating custom applications. 


IMHO if you have the Salesforce licenses, you should always look to build on the existing functionality rather than replicating it.

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bob_buzzardbob_buzzard

"Force.com" is the key to this - the Product standard object is part of the CRM application which would require a Salesforce license.  Force.com is a lower cost license for creating custom applications. 


IMHO if you have the Salesforce licenses, you should always look to build on the existing functionality rather than replicating it.

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Nick G.Nick G.

Thanks so much for the feedback! Building on the product standard object is what I will do then.

 

Thanks!

 

Nick