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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Handbook

By : Siddhesh Kabe
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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Handbook

By: Siddhesh Kabe

Overview of this book

The Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder exam is for individuals who want to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in designing, building, and implementing custom applications using the declarative customization capabilities of Force.com. This book will build a strong foundation in Force.com to prepare you for the platform app builder certification exam. It will guide you through designing the interface while introducing the Lightning Process Builder. Next, we will implement business logic using various point and click features of Force.com. We will learn to manage data and create reports and dashboards. We will then learn to administer the force.com application by configuring the object-level, field-level, and record-level security. By the end of this book, you will be completely equipped to take the Platform App Builder certification exam.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Handbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

An overview of Lightning Connect and external objects


Lightning Connect is one of the features that allows us to seamlessly integrate an external system with Salesforce in real time. We can import external data tables as external objects into Salesforce. For example, data stored on the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can be connected as an external object via web service callouts.

The data is connected in real-time, so there is no scope for data being stale and out of sync. We can use external objects when:

  • We want to connect Salesforce to a system with large amounts of data on an external system

  • We want real-time access to the latest data

The following diagram illustrates the Lightning Connect process:

Let's start by connecting to a sample external web service. For this example, we are going to connect to a sample web service found at http://Odata.org.

We are going to connect to the web-service at http://services.odata.org/V2/(S(l4iqzxoq5ftoav2fe5qcumtx))/OData/OData.svc/.

  1. Go to Setup...