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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By : Paul Goodey GP, Goodey
Book Image

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

Using declarative options with Lightning components

Lighting components, from a declarative perspective, are reusable visual elements that can be used to provide standard and customized features and functionality on a Lightning Page within the Lightning Platform.

There are several types and flavors of Lightning Components and these allow you to present a combination of standard and custom functionality that is presented within the Lightning Experience user interface.

The mechanism that enables you to customize the user interface and apply Lightning Components is known as the Lightning App Builder. Let's look at the options that are available for using declarative options with Lightning Components and for configuring and building Lightning pages.

Building apps with the Lightning App Builder

The Lightning App Builder provides features and functionality that allow the configuration of apps. You can customize the styling or branding for the app, the paths or navigation...