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Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

By : Enrico Murru
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Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

By: Enrico Murru

Overview of this book

The Salesforce Advanced Administrator certification extends beyond administrator certification, covering advanced platform features and functions such as configuration, automation, security, and customization. Complete with comprehensive coverage of all these topics and exam-oriented questions and mock tests, this Salesforce book will help you earn advanced administrator credentials. You'll start your journey by mastering data access security, monitoring and auditing, and understanding best practices for handling change management and data across organizations. The book then delves into data model management for improving data quality and lets you explore Sales features such as products, schedules, quotes, and forecasting capabilities. As you progress, this book will guide you in working with content management to set up and maintain Salesforce content. You'll also master organizing your files and data using reports and dashboards. Finally, you'll learn how to use a combination of automation tools to solve business problems. By the end of the book, you will have developed the skills required to get your advanced administrator credentials.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Security, Access, and Organization Management
5
Section 2: Data Model Management
7
Section 3: Sales and Service Cloud Applications
10
Section 4: Data and Content Management
13
Section 5: Reports and Dashboards
16
Section 6: Process Automation
22
Section 7: Taking Your Certification Exam

Lightning Process Builder

We can bring workflow rules to a new level with the Lightning Process Builder, a point and click tool that was made to easily automate business processes using a modern and intuitive graphical designer.

Each Process Builder is made up of certain criteria based on a specific Salesforce object and is used to trigger groups of actions (just like workflow rules), both immediate and scheduled (just like workflows, you can update a field when a specific time condition is met). We'll also learn how to troubleshoot a process in order to understand why errors crop up, as well as how to speed up debugging and deliver a slick automated experience for your organization.

In this chapter, we'll learn about the following topics:

  • Setting up a Lightning Process Builder
  • Defining action groups
  • Managing the Process Builder
  • Final considerations for building with...