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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

Configuring social features by users

Users can choose whether they want to hide or show social networking features and choose which social network, depending on which user interface they are using, to display for the social accounts, leads, and contacts. Users can only choose to show or hide the social networking features for their user account; they cannot affect whether other users' can view social networking information.

User can enable social accounts, leads, and contacts for themselves and specify which of the available social networks are visible by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Personal Settings options by clicking on your profile image and then clicking on Settings, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 10.2 – Personal settings

  2. Search for Social Accounts in the Quick Find search box located at the top of the Personal Settings menu in the left sidebar.
  3. Click on My Social Accounts and Contacts in the Personal Settings menu.
  4. In...