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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at how to design and build a data model both conceptually and using features in the Salesforce Lightning Platform.

Learning how to design and build a data model both conceptually and using the features in the Salesforce Lightning Platform is necessary when building apps in the Salesforce Platform. Having gone through this chapter, you will have gained the knowledge to create custom objects and custom fields and looked at the ways to determine an appropriate data model.

This chapter will have equipped you with the skills to design data model relationships and understand the implications of changing field types. In addition, you will have gained the knowledge and skills to use the Object Manager setup option and Schema Builder to create custom objects and fields and understand how Schema Builder can be used in the Lightning Platform to build and view a data model.

Finally, you were presented with a number of questions to help clarify the...