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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By : Paul Goodey GP, Goodey
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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By: Paul Goodey GP, Goodey

Overview of this book

Do you want to be able to confidently design and build apps that support business processes within the Lightning Platform? Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide not only helps you to do this, but also prepares you for the certification exam. The book starts by describing the core capabilities of the Lightning Platform. You'll learn techniques for data modeling to design, build, and deploy apps without writing code and achieve rapid results with the declarative capabilities that the Lightning Platform provides. Next, you'll explore utilities for importing and exporting data and the features available in the Lightning Platform to restrict and extend access to objects, fields, and records. You'll also be able to customize the Salesforce Lightning Experience user interface (UI) and build functionality for custom buttons, links, and actions. Later, this certification study guide will take you through reporting and the social and mobile features of the Lightning Platform. Finally, you’ll get to grips with Salesforce build environments and deployment options. By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll not only have learned how to build data models, enforce data security, and implement business logic and process automation, but also have gained the confidence to pass the Platform App Builder exam and achieve Salesforce certification.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to the Lightning Platform Core
5
Section 2: Behind the Scenes
11
Section 3: A Step Closer to the Exam

Chapter 2: Designing and Building a Data Model

This chapter looks at how to design and build a data model both conceptually and using the features in the Salesforce Lightning Platform.

Using an example scenario that describes business requirements for a data solution, the chapter looks at ways to determine an appropriate data model and identifies the types of data model relationships that exist and can be built in Salesforce. This is a common activity whenever tasked with designing a solution and an essential skill to be learned whenever apps are to be built within the Lightning Platform.

We will look at field types that are available when creating custom fields and understand the impacts of changing field types.

Using the Object Manager setup option and Schema Builder, you will learn how to create custom objects and fields and how Schema Builder can be used in the Lightning Platform to build and view a data model.

Finally, you will be presented with a number of questions...