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Platform App Builder

The Platform App Builder syllabus: designing a data model, building logic without code, composing the UI, and shipping it.

  • Intermediate
  • 46 lessons
  • 8 modules
  • English

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What you'll learn

  • Design a data model that survives the second and third change
  • Build business logic declaratively, and recognise where that stops
  • Compose Lightning pages and apps around how people actually work
  • Deploy what you have built between environments
  • Sit the Platform App Builder exam having built the thing it describes

Course content

8 sections · 46 lectures · 21 hands-on labs

The app that is not there 2 lectures
  1. 1.1 The Survey That Never Happened
  2. 1.2 What An App Builder Is, What The Platform Gives You For Free, And What The Exam Actually Tests
Salesforce Fundamentals — where declarative stops 6 lectures
  1. 2.1 The Line Between Clicks And Code, And The Four Signals That Tell You It Is In Front Of You
  2. 2.2 Buy, Extend Or Build: AppExchange, AgentExchange, And The Scenarios Where Extending An Org Beats Building In It
  3. 2.3H Hands-On: Create The Aldermoor App, Its Navigation And Its First Tab Hands-on
  4. 2.4 Designing Access Into An Application: What A Builder Chooses Once, And What An Administrator Changes Forever After
  5. 2.5H Hands-On: The Sharing Design For A Surveyor Who Must Not See Another Region's Sites Hands-on
  6. 2.6H Hands-On: Report Types Are A Build Decision, Not A Reporting Decision Hands-on
Data Modeling and Management 9 lectures
  1. 3.1 Finding the objects in a business that has none: the four nouns test, and the ones that turn out to be fields
  2. 3.2H Hands-On: Build Site and Survey, and the field types you are committing to Hands-on
  3. 3.3 Master-detail or lookup: the one decision that quietly sets sharing, deletion, reporting and whether you can roll anything up
  4. 3.4H Hands-On: Wire Site, Survey and Observation, and watch what each relationship type hands you Hands-on
  5. 3.5 The many-to-many you cannot design around, and the junction object that carries facts about the pairing itself
  6. 3.6H Hands-On: The Survey Assignment junction, and the licence a surveyor either holds or does not Hands-on
  7. 3.7 Choosing a field data type, and what happens on the day you try to change it
  8. 3.8 External objects and the record that should not live in your org at all
  9. 3.9H Hands-On: Get Dervla's spreadsheet in without importing the mess that is in it Hands-on
Business Logic — the logic you build without code 7 lectures
  1. 4.1 Formula Fields: What A Formula Is Allowed To Know, And When It Is Calculated
  2. 4.2 Roll-Up Summaries: What They Can Count, What They Refuse To Count, And The Declarative Ways Round It
  3. 4.3H Hands-On: The Formulas That Make A Closing Survey Window Visible While There Is Still Time Hands-on
  4. 4.4H Hands-On: Roll The Observations Up To The Site, And Get To A Number Ines Will Actually Sign Hands-on
  5. 4.5 Validation Rules As Design: Refusing A Record, Guiding A Person, And The Rule That Quietly Breaks Your Own Import
  6. 4.6aH Hands-On: The Survey Aldermoor Must Not Be Able To Book Hands-on
  7. 4.6bH Hands-On: One Fact, Three Answers Hands-on
Business Logic — process automation 8 lectures
  1. 5.1 Given a Requirement, Which Flow Type
  2. 5.2H Hands-On: The Record-Triggered Flow That Assigns a Survey Hands-on
  3. 5.3H Hands-On: A Screen Flow Rory Can Drive at Dusk Hands-on
  4. 5.4 Flow Architecture for an App Builder
  5. 5.5H Hands-On: The Approval That Stops a Report Leaving Without Ines Hands-on
  6. 5.6 Maintaining What You Shipped
  7. 5.7H Hands-On: Break Your Own Flow on Purpose, Then Find It Hands-on
  8. 5.8 Agentforce as a Step Inside a Process
User Interface — composing the application 7 lectures
  1. 6.1 The Interface Is a Composition
  2. 6.2H Hands-On: The Site Record Page, and What Earns the Space Above the Fold Hands-on
  3. 6.3 Actions, Buttons and Links: Three Controls That Behave Nothing Alike
  4. 6.4H Hands-On: The Object-Specific Action That Logs an Observation in Four Taps Hands-on
  5. 6.5 Lightning Components in a Page You Did Not Write
  6. 6.6H Hands-On: Build for the Phone First, and the Desktop Decisions You Discover Were Wrong Hands-on
  7. 6.7H Hands-On: What a Given User Actually Sees Hands-on
App Deployment — shipping it 5 lectures
  1. 7.1 Environments: What a Sandbox Is a Copy Of, How the Types Differ, and Which One This Release Needs
  2. 7.2H Hands-On: Move the Aldermoor App With a Change Set, and Watch It Fail on a Dependency You Forgot Hands-on
  3. 7.3 Packages: Unmanaged, Managed, and the Decision Dervla Is Really Making When She Asks Whether the App Can Be Sold
  4. 7.4 The Deployment Plan: What Ships, What Refuses to Ship, and the Things You Will Always Have to Do by Hand
  5. 7.5H Hands-On: A Release You Could Genuinely Run on a Thursday Afternoon Hands-on
The exam, and the app you now own 2 lectures
  1. 8.1 The exam run: five domains, seventy-three percent, and an honest read of where you are weakest
  2. 8.2 The app you now own, and where the Build track goes next

Requirements

  • CORE-110 Platform Administrator
  • A free Developer Edition org

Description

This course is about the line where declarative building stops — and everything you can do before you reach it. Data modelling and management, business logic built without code, process automation, composing the user interface, and deployment, all against one application you build from nothing.

It covers the Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder blueprint, and it is the course that makes the distinction the exam keeps testing: not can this be built declaratively, but should it be.

Who this course is for

  • Administrators moving into building, and developers who need the declarative half properly.

Skills you'll practise

App BuilderData modellingLightning App BuilderDeclarative logicProcess automationDeployment

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