Summary
Understanding the capabilities of the Lightning Platform is an important objective for all app builders, and you are now equipped with knowledge of the core Salesforce CRM objects and the capabilities that exist for these core features and associated process automation.
Knowing where the capabilities and boundaries lie for the declarative building of solutions when compared with programmatic development is vital, and you have gained this knowledge to help you choose, design, and build your next solution.
In addition, we discovered how additional functionality or data is available from the AppExchange marketplace and you now know how to exploit the various options that are available for adding value to your Salesforce instance.
Finally, we posed questions to help clarify the key concepts and features that are required when tackling the Salesforce Fundamentals section of the App Builder Certification exam.
In the next chapter, Chapter 2, Designing and Building a Data Model, we will look at how to design and build a data model in the Salesforce CRM and learn about Schema Builder. We will discuss how field relationships are used and how their use affects record access. We will also look at field types and understand the impacts of changing field types.