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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

Permissions to run a flow


We can embed the flow in a Visualforce page and add the page as a tab on the app. For the user to actually run the flow, we require the following three conditions:

  • The user must have either the Run Flows user permission or Force.com Flow User selected on their user record

  • The user must have access to the Visualforce page in which the flow is embedded

  • The flow must be active. Only flow creators can run inactive flows

More flows

We have seen the most basic use cases for flows. The flow designer can help us design very complex flows with multiple conditions. A few things need to be considered when designing a flow:

  • It does not run a validation rule unless specified in the field's settings. If a field is marked as required while created, it won't be highlighted until the record is saved and throws an error.

  • A flow interview is a running instance of a flow. When we distribute a flow, users interact with individual interviews of that flow.

  • A flow can consist of multiple flow...