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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

Using the Lighting App Builder


The Lighting App Builder is a point-and-click tool that makes it easy to create a single-page app for Salesforce1. With the Lighting App Builder, we can use various predefined components to drag and drop on the app.

With the Lightning App Builder, we can build single-page apps, such as a dashboard, to track sales or enter expenses with the ability to drill down into the details.

Tip

Note

At the time of writing this book, the Lighting App Builder is in pilot mode and the final version can change.

The Lightning App Builder is used to build Lightning pages with a custom layout. A lightning page is made up of regions that contain components. The structure of the page changes based on the device it is opened on.

The following screenshot is a sample of an app built using the Lightning App Builder:

In the next section, we will build a sample Lighting app that will display Recent Cases and Working Cases in two lists along with the chart of Cases by Status. We will explore...