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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

Relationships - masters first


When we load data, we need to load it in the order of dependencies; for example, before we insert Opportunities, we must first insert the Account records.

Another example is to load Opportunity Line Items. We must first load both the parent records of Opportunity as well as Price Book and its Price Book Entries.

Modifying system fields

Salesforce automatically manages the system fields, such as Created Date, Last Modified Date, Last Modified by, and Created by. Normally, we are unable to set or change these values for audit integrity purposes. However, an administrator can contact Salesforce Support to enable the Create Audit Fields feature for a limited time to allow these fields to be set on the create operation only.

To find more details about how to create Audit Fields, go to https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewSolution?urlname=Considerations-before-having-Create-Audit-Fields-enabled&language=en_US.

Features of modifiable system fields

Some of the important...