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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)
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 10: Understanding the Social Features

In this chapter, we will look at the capabilities of the social networking features of the Lightning Platform.

You will learn how to set up, configure, and authorize a social network and the way in which accounts, leads, and contacts can be linked to social networks.

You will also learn about the settings for the social features and find out how to associate account, lead, and contact records with social networking profiles.

Finally, you will be presented with a number of questions about the capabilities of and use cases for social features in the Lightning Platform.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Exam objectives – Social features
  • Setting up social accounts, leads, and contacts
  • Configuring the social features by users
  • Linking accounts, leads, and contacts to social networks
  • Questions to test your knowledge