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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

Assessing the capabilities of process automation in the Lightning Platform

As an app builder, you will often be presented with scenarios or requests by users within your organization where manual and time-consuming processes can be replaced using process automation in the Lightning Platform. Furthermore, in the same way that people have become accustomed to notifications when using non-Salesforce systems, such as receiving an acknowledgment that an online shopping order has been placed, customers will expect to receive some form of automation whenever they interact with your organization.

Not only do automation processes allow notifications – both internally and externally, but they can also be used to improve data quality, reduce inefficiencies, and increase productivity. Ultimately, with the use of process automation, data integrity increases and operational costs are lowered.

In the Lightning Platform, we can build these types of automation using Workflow, Flow, Process...