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Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Handbook

By : Siddhesh Kabe
Book Image

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

Building an application


An application or an app is a logical grouping of tabs used for a common business process. Different tabs are grouped together to form a single business unit for user convenience; however, users can further customize it for themselves, as discussed at the beginning of this chapter.

The following screenshot shows the standard applications provided by the platform by default:

Salesforce provides standard applications, such as Sales, Call Center, Marketing, Community, and Force.com.

Understanding custom applications

We can customize an application by giving it a custom logo, a custom name, a custom description, and a custom landing page. We can give the instructions to use the objects on the custom landing page.

Exercise – building your own application

Let's continue building the Library Management System. Build an application for the Library Management System. Design a simple custom logo for it as well.

To build your own application, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to Setup...