Get up to speed with the essential concepts and techniques necessary to prepare for the Salesforce Platform App Builder certification exam
▶Book Description
Do you want to be able to confidently design and build apps that support business processes within the Lightning Platform? Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide not only helps you to do this, but also prepares you for the certification exam.
The book starts by describing the core capabilities of the Lightning Platform. You'll learn techniques for data modeling to design, build, and deploy apps without writing code and achieve rapid results with the declarative capabilities that the Lightning Platform provides. Next, you'll explore utilities for importing and exporting data and the features available in the Lightning Platform to restrict and extend access to objects, fields, and records. You'll also be able to customize the Salesforce Lightning Experience user interface (UI) and build functionality for custom buttons, links, and actions. Later, this certification study guide will take you through reporting and the social and mobile features of the Lightning Platform. Finally, you'll get to grips with Salesforce build environments and deployment options.
By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll not only have learned how to build data models, enforce data security, and implement business logic and process automation, but also have gained the confidence to pass the Platform App Builder exam and achieve Salesforce certification.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁Explore the core features of the Lightning Platform
⦁Design and build an appropriate data model for a given scenario
⦁Identify the Lightning Platform's features and capabilities
⦁Customize the Salesforce Lightning Experience UI
⦁Implement business logic and process automation
⦁Identify the capabilities of declarative customization
▶Key Features
⦁Prepare for the Salesforce Platform App Builder certification exam by exploring important concepts and expert tips and techniques
⦁Design the data model, user interface, business logic, and security for custom apps
⦁Understand the key milestones and considerations when managing an application lifecycle
▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for beginners and aspiring developers who want to learn how to build apps on the Salesforce Platform or pass the Salesforce Platform App Builder certification exam. Salesforce administrators and existing Salesforce Lightning Platform developers looking to learn more about the declarative, non-programmatic app building capabilities of the Salesforce Lightning Platform will also find this book useful.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Core Capabilities of the Lightning Platform, covers the Lightning Platform schema and core standard objects, looking at the boundaries of declarative app building compared to building apps programmatically, and describes the Salesforce AppExchange.
⦁ Chapter 2, Designing and Building a Data Model, explains how to design and build an appropriate data model and looks at field data types, relationship fields, and the impact of changing field type, along with a detailed look at the capabilities of Schema Builder.
⦁ Chapter 3, Importing and Exporting Data, looks at the utilities and features for importing and exporting data and describes how, with the use of external objects, data that does not reside in the Lightning Platform can be accessed within the platform.
⦁ Chapter 4, Securing Access to Data, shows you how to restrict and extend access to objects, fields, and records, and helps you to understand how, through the use of object-level permissions, organization-wide sharing defaults, and other sharing settings, appropriate access to records can be configured.
⦁ Chapter 5, Setting Up the User Interface, covers the declarative options to customize the Salesforce Lightning Experience user interface, where you will be shown how to configure and build functionality for custom buttons, links, and actions, as well as providing guidance for designing an appropriate user interface for a given scenario.
⦁ Chapter 6, Implementing Business Logic, describes how record types, formula fields, roll-up summary fields, and validation rules facilitate the control and presentation of values and the validation of business logic.
⦁ Chapter 7, Building Business Process Automation, looks at the features and capabilities for automating processes for given business requirements using workflow rules, Process Builder, and Flow, and how approval processes can be configured to automate the process of approving or rejecting records.
⦁ Chapter 8, Generating Data Analytics with Reports and Dashboards, describes how to use the analytics features to create reports and dashboards and how standard reports can be built, as well as how to configure custom report types to allow standard report templates to be extended.
⦁ Chapter 9, Configuring the Mobile Features, shows you how the declarative features can be used to customize mobile apps and set the mobile user interface, along with the configuration of global and object-specific actions.
⦁ Chapter 10, Understanding the Social Features, shows you how the capabilities of the social networking features can be configured to satisfy various use cases for linking Lightning Platform records with social network profiles.
⦁ Chapter 11, Managing the App Building Process, covers application life cycle management and describes Salesforce environments, sandboxes, and how to use change sets and unmanaged packages to deploy changes.
⦁ Chapter 12, Studying for the Certified Platform App Builder Exam, describes the certified Platform App Builder exam and looks at resources, including training courses and Trailhead, that are available to prepare for the exam and offers insight into the types of questions, along with suggested approaches for planning, booking, and taking the exam.
