Description

Declarative Developer Certificate for Platform App Builder designed for users willing to demonstrate their skills in designing, building and implementing custom interfaces and applications. This course enables you to gain skills through declarative programming beyond using Salesforce.

App Builder consists of two types of development: declarative and programmatic development. In this course, you will learn to develop applications using the declarative method. The declarative approach ensures a very quick development and deployment of applications.

The declarative type of application development is performed by point and click using a browser. This kind of development allows you to create new objects, define standard views and provide inputs to click and link without any prior coding knowledge.

Enroll in this course to ensure your success in the Salesforce and get recognized as a Salesforce Professional all over the world.

What will you learn

During this course, you will learn to:

1. Implement applications using declarative methods
2. Design data model by understanding the data structure
3. Create business logic by learning the rules to manipulate data 
4. Create user interface by creating layouts that specify the display of data
5. Manage security for applications
6. Develop reports and Dashboards
7. Deploy applications quickly

Why get enrolled in this course

Enroll in this course to:

1. Create correct data model in compliance with requirements
2. Manage application security
3. Learn Process Automation
4. Create business logic declaratively
5. Design your user interfaces
6. Customize applications for mobile use and Lightning.
7. Implement applications

Course Offerings

1. Live/Virtual Classroom Training in the presence of online instructors 
2. Quick look at Course Details, Contents, and Demo Videos
3. Quality Training Manuals for easy understanding
4. Anytime access to Reference materials
5. Gain your Course Completion Certificate on the Topic
6. Guaranteed high pay jobs after completing certification

Course Benefits

1. Develop and design applications quickly using declarative method
2. Configure and understand the business logic
3. Enhance the performance of implementation of data model
4. Maintain data security using objects, fields, and records

Audience  

1. Administrators
2. Developers
3. Sales Representatives
4. System Integrators and
5. Independent software vendors (ISVs)

Prerequisite

Experience as administering Salesforce organization
Experience building custom elements in Salesforce, such as page layouts, fields, workflows, and processes

Course Content

Lesson 1:  Declarative Data Model
This chapter introduces the CRM objects and the data model. Setting up CRM content in your organization allows you to use content libraries. Association among objects defines any relationship. Salesforce supports one to many relationships.

Class 1:
a) CRM Objects - Overview and Usage
b) Demonstrative Modification

Class 2:
a) Use Cases for Programmatic Modification
b) Identify an applicable data model

Class 3:
a) Record access impacts and Relationship types, User Interface, and Reporting
b) Field Types
c) Examination of the Schema Builder
d) Importing and Exporting Data
e) External Objects Use cases

Lesson 2: User Interface
This lesson teaches you how to create user interface and create custom buttons, set list views, manage record types and describes social features

a) Options Personalization
b) Custom Buttons, Links, and Actions
c) List Views
d) Record Types
e) Social Features
f) UI Design Best Practices

Lesson 3: Designing Business Logic
Automation process defines the task or process that your business needs to automate. Salesforce supports many automatic processes like sending emails, updating fields and much more. Salesforce allows you to achieve automation process using Formula fields, Rollup-Summary fields, and Workflows

1. Formula Fields 
2. Roll-up Summary Fields
3. Acceptance Guidelines

Lesson 4: Managing Reports and Data Security
The security feature helps users to protect data from unauthorized access and perform their job efficiently. To protect data, you need to prevent the user from seeing, creating, editing or deleting any instance of a object. Object-level access allows us to hide tabs and objects from specific users, so they do not the know the existence of such type of data. Field-level security controls a user from seeing, editing, and deleting the value for a field on an object. Record level security restricts users from accessing individual files.

1. Object-Level Security
2. Field-level Security
3. Record level Security

Lesson 5: Automating Business Processes
Creation of Business logic based on rules is possible using Process Builder and approval processes. Process Builder assigns tasks to users, update fields, or send email alerts. Approval processes enable users to submit sensitive records like new contracts to other users for approval.

1. Lightning Process Builder
2. Plan and License
3. Business Performance Automation
4. Field Updates and Potential for Recursion 

Lesson 6: Display Your App
Any App is a group of related tabs that serve different functionalities. Salesforce enables you to create your customized Apps based on your requirements.

1. Application Lifecycle
2. Sandboxes
3. Change Sets 
4. Maintained and Unmaintained Packages
5. Determining an Applicable Deployment Plan

Lesson 7: Designing Leading User Interface Component
User interface plays a vital role in serving as the front end of any great business. Building a user interface that is powerful, easy to use and achieves all tasks is a significant challenge in the market. This section teaches you to create a very efficient user interface using the records, record types, dashboard, and Lightning components,

1. Building Records
2. Record Types
3. Dashboards
4. Demonstrative Options for Incorporating Lightning Components
5. Illustrative modification Available for the Salesforce1 User Interface

Lesson  8: Deciding When Declaratively is not Enough
Declarative development becomes non-applicable for building specialized complex business processes. This section provides a brief view of the limitations and possible actions.

1. Limits of Declarative Tools
2. Programmatic Use-cases
3. AppExchange Apps

FAQs

1. What is the advantage of declarative development for platform App Builder?
Benefits of declarative development include:

a) Easy development with no coding knowledge
b) Easy maintenance
c) Upgraded automatically with new release of Salesforce
d) Quick to build such applications
e) Less expensive
f) No governor limitations

2. What is CRM?
CRM stands for Customer Relation Management that company uses to manage and analyze data. CRM is designed to compile information or serve as a point of contact between the customers and the company.

3. What type of Tabs created in the user interface?
You can create Tabs of the following types:

• Custom Object Tabs
• Custom Web tabs
• Visualforce Tabs
• Lightning page

4. What are the two special relationships supported by Salesforce?
The two special relationships backed by Salesforce are
a) Self-relationship, and
b) Hierarchical relationships

5. What is meant by App in Salesforce?
Any App is a group of related tabs that serve different functionalities. Salesforce allows to customize existing Apps or create your Apps based on your requirement.

6. What are the actions in a process that can be automated?
Automated actions like email alerts, tasks, field updates, and outbound messages, are triggered by a process, workflow rule, approval process, or milestone.

7. What is meant by Reports?
Summaries of the data stored in any app are called Reports. Reports monitor and analyze the data generated in any organization. Reports consist of a table of data, data filters, groupings and a customized graph.