Chapter 3: Importing and Exporting Data
In this chapter, you will learn about the features and capabilities that exist for importing data into the Lightning Platform.
When building and maintaining apps on the Lightning Platform, there are occasions when you, as an app builder, need to either import or export data. Importing data is necessary in order to load existing user-generated data and also to create system data that is used by apps. Exporting data is needed for data backups and integrations with other systems.
Within this chapter, you will discover the options that are available to import and export data to and from Salesforce.
You will also learn how external objects can be used in Salesforce to access external data that does not reside within the Salesforce Lightning Platform.
Finally, you will be presented with a number of questions about importing and exporting data and the capabilities of external objects.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics...