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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

Understanding the features and capabilities of external objects

We have learned about the options for importing and exporting data to and from the Lightning Platform and we have carried out some practical methods of importing or copying data into the Lightning Platform using the ETL processes of extract, transform, and load.

ETL processes generally produce copies of data in the Salesforce org, which are static references at the point of extraction and have the disadvantage that the data may not need to be permanently stored and, at some point in time, becomes out of date.

As an improvement to the integration of Salesforce and third-party systems, where data is always up to date, Salesforce provides a feature known as Salesforce Connect that uses external objects that represent the data tables and records that are located in external systems.

External objects are similar to custom objects, which we looked at in Chapter 2, Designing and Building a Data Model. Custom objects...