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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By : Paul Goodey
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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide

By: Paul 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)
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Section 1: Introduction to the Lightning Platform Core
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Section 2: Behind the Scenes
11
Section 3: A Step Closer to the Exam

Installing the Salesforce Mobile App

Mobile phones and devices are ubiquitous within both our private lives and the business environment. In the current climate of mixing work from the office, the home, remotely, and on the move, organizations of all sizes have realized the benefits of using mobile devices to access business applications in today's mobile-first world.

Mobile app development, however, is not always cost-effective, as the final product can be expensive to build or does not meet user requirements. Not all developments of mobile apps pass the test for usability and often apps built for mobile devices provide a lack of functionality and poor user experience. New mobile apps or migrations of desktop apps to mobile sometimes fail as they are simply mobile screen overlays that are not fit for purpose and result in poor user adoption, the root cause of which can be identified by tracing back to an underlying platform or mobile government that is poorly integrated and...