Book Image

Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By : Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams
Book Image

Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

By: Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams

Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning Platform, used to build enterprise apps, is being increasingly adopted by admins, business analysts, consultants, architects, and especially developers. With this Salesforce certification, you'll be able to enhance your development skills and become a valuable member of your organization. This certification guide is designed to be completely aligned with the official exam study guide for the latest Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I release and includes updates from Spring '19. Starting with Salesforce fundamentals and performing data modeling and management, you’ll progress to automating logic and processes and working on user interfaces with Salesforce components. Finally, you'll learn how to work with testing frameworks, perform debugging, and deploy metadata, and get to grips with useful tips and tricks. Each chapter concludes with sample questions that are commonly found in the exam, and the book wraps up with mock tests to help you prepare for the DEV501 certification exam. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to take the exam and earn your Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I certification.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
4
Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
9
Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
12
Mock Tests

Displaying Salesforce data using Visualforce

Visualforce is a framework of components that allows you to build custom user interfaces (UIs) for mobile and desktop apps that are hosted on the Lightning Platform. With Visualforce, you can extend existing (built-in) Salesforce functionality, but you can also build your application from scratch. You can also combine the old Visualforce technology with the Lightning Experience styling so that the user won't see the difference between your Visualforce page and a Lightning component. Be careful, though: not every standard Visualforce component is supported in the Lightning styling.

Each Visualforce page has its own URL. The URL always starts with your default organization URL (or the URL of an installed app). After the base URL, you will find /apex and, after this path, you will find the name of your page. So, if the name of the...