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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

Determining deployment options for given scenarios

When deploying changes between Lightning Platform environments, there are various deployment options and scenarios that you should consider when using change sets.

In particular, when migrating changes to a production instance, there are additional requirements for programmatic Apex code that mean Apex test classes need to be written and executed to test that the lines of code function as expected.

There is a minimum acceptable percentage of tested code lines before a change set is permitted to be deployed to a production instance. These tests are required to prevent code from causing errors that would have an impact on the production org. During the running of all tests in the org, the code coverage must be at least 75%.

The deployment options are determined by the type of metadata changes within the change sets; the following should be considered:

  • Apex code test classes: When Apex code is included in a change set...