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Salesforce is a customer relationship management platform. It can be used in a variety of ways. Salesforce offers a cloud based software designed to help businesses better engage with their customers. Dynamic Dashboards are a feature in Salesforce that allows users to create custom dashboards to visualize and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and other important data. Dynamic dashboards are real-time, personalized, multi-user platforms that enable organizations to add new business intelligence content and update existing data seamlessly.These dashboards can be customized with different widgets and charts to display data from various sources, such as Salesforce reports and external data sources. ERD stands for Entity Relationship Diagram. It is a graphical representation of entities and their relationships to each other.

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When coding in JavaScript, we have learned to use if/else statements. The reason we use these statements is to execute a block of code if one condition is true. That is it’s purpose. the if/else statement is considered a “Conditional” statement, meaning the different actions are performed based on the different conditions. The general syntax of if/else statements is as follows- if a condition is true, the “block of the statement” will be executed. However, if this is not the case, the “block of the statement” will either be skipped or jumped onto another “block of the statement”. You are not limited to the number of conditional statements you have within a particular code. 

  When looking at isNaN in JavaScript, the definition of this is “Not a Number”. The code statement is simply just used to check whether a value is a number or not. If the value is a number, JavaScript will return “true”, but if it is not a number, it will return “false”. 

Below I have provided examples of both code statements

 

I think we are learning Salesforce because it will lay the foundations of a system we will most likely be working within our future careers by exposing us to it and understanding its purpose of it. Salesforce allows a company to build better relationships with its consumers and allows businesses to gather its data efficiently to assist in their decision-making. The circles show the starting or ending points of the event. The rectangle is for the activities in the process. The diamond is used to show what decision needs to be made. The arrows show the flow of the events. The cylinder is stored data. The actors are the rows or columns that identify the role that is responsible for the steps in its lane. Process mapping identifies problems with symbols. We use it because it is easier and quicker for someone to read and understand while still conveying the information that needs to be understood. The first mistake that I noticed is that the starting and end of the swim lane has the wrong symbol, it is a rectangle it should be a circle. Another issue is found with it is that one decision diamond only has one option, there should be a yes and no option. The delivery action is in a cylinder, which would mean they store data in the delivery, which would not be true so it should be another rectangle. Another issue is the actor says, “John Smith, Stock Manager”, but the actors should not include names just the role. Swim lanes are a simple way to show who is responsible for what and when in the process they are responsible. It can be applied to different processes. 

The waterfall method divides software development into different phases, in one phase must be completed before the next. The phases are designed to complete specific tasks during the SDLC phase. The agile method is to develop multiple parts at once. Key differences between the two is that the agile method does not require the top to bottom and it makes it a quicker method. The waterfall method is carefully planned and is passed to team members as it is completed while the agile method is worked on together continuously. MIS is all about utilizing technology in the best way to help a business strive. MIS is key in organizing information across multiple platforms and assisting in decision making. A system that I use in my everyday life is called RetailOne which allows me to access policy information as well as information for every aspect of my work. Each thing I access is first created by its pertaining department, from there they add it into the system and then I get access to updated information. The four processes of designing UX are: User research-  This is where you find the issue that needs to be solved, Design- This is where you create a outline of the design and create a prototype of it, Testing- This where you can see how it functions and what needs to be adjusted/ what works, and Implementation- This is the final step where the image becomes reality. Important acronyms to know are: SDLC- Software Development Life Cycle, API- Application Programming Interface, ERP- Enterprises Resource Planning, and UX- User Experience. A system is a collection of items that are organized for a common purpose. The three components involved in a system are input, process, and output. System analysis reviews the system in place and looks for things that can be better developed and make sure there are no errors or issues within the system. I think the core to all systems is the part that defines the system’s function. MIS professionals develop information systems that allow people or companies to store and analyze data.

If and Else statements allow you to run code to find out if something is true or false. The simple statement to explain it is “If the condition is true, execute this code, else execute a different code. There are a number of operations you can test like:

== equal to, >= greater than or equal to, > greater, != not equal

An example of an if/else statement is:

let number = 2

if (number > 0) {

console.log(true);

}

else if {

 

 

console.log(false) ;

}

This statement would return the word “true” because 2 is greater than 0.

We have talked all about JavaScript, but there are also other types of coding languages we can use. Another coding language we use is called CSS. CSS is shorthand for Cascading Style Sheets. This coding is used to style the web content. It describes the elements that are displayed on the screen and saves time because you can set the layout of multiple pages at once. Another coding language that is important to web design is HTML. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is responsible for the structure of web pages. HTML displays all the content in a specific order. HTML includes headings, links, images, and text. JavaScript is the interactive portion of the website. HTML and CSS are not capable of interactive abilities. Together JavaScript, HTML, and CSS create cool working sites. Now knowing the information I know now, using websites is a cool experience. There is a lot more that goes into creating a website than I originally thought so there is definitely a greater appreciation for how well these websites work and the dedication that goes into them.

In our previous post, we went over what JavaScritp was, a type of programming language, and we went into slight detail as to what a variable was and how to either declare or initialize it. In this discussion, we are covering functions and their purpose. A function in JavaScript is “a set of statements that performs a task or calculates a value”. In order for it to be a true function it must take some input and produce some sort of output, and there must be some sort of relationship between both the inputs and the outputs. By calling function in JavaScript you are allowing an “object” to use a “method” that belongs to another object. In other words, it calls to apply a function to more than one object.  Calling a function is also fairly straightforward. All you need to do is use the function name, followed by parentheses- call(). Below is an example.

Functions organize your code and allow you to reuse data. Functions return a output(value) for the input you put in. An example of a function is shown below. By typing the word function, you name the operation you want the code to perform. In this example we are looking for a sum, therefore, the code reads

function addNumbers(a,b) {

Then you will put:

return a  + b;

This tells the code what you want as your output. The function will produce a value for the sum of the number you assign to value a and value b.

If a=3 and b=4

The code will return 7

Then code is closed with }. This is how you properly use a function in Javascript.

While JavaScript manages interactions between lines of codes and events and HTML governs the displacement of content, the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)  is a stylesheet coding language that adds design elements to a web page. CSS was created and released in December 1996. There are three types of CSS: Inline CSS, Internal or Embedded CSS, and External CSS. 

CSS is a design tool. This coding language makes everything look better so that the users don’t stare ate boring text all day. With CSS, we can change font color, font size, and font style to make a webpage more appealing for the user. You can even add and change background and margins. With CSS, you can design not only text but a whole layout of the webpage. From one of the online article, I even learned that you can even change a cursor design for your website to make user interaction feel more custom and add some individuality to your webpage.