You're reading from Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Guide A beginner's guide to building apps on the Salesforce Platform and passing the Salesforce Platform App Builder exam

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800206434

Length 412 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (2):

Paul Goodey

Paul Goodey GP

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to the Lightning Platform Core

2. Chapter 1: Core Capabilities of the Lightning Platform FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing and Building a Data Model

4. Chapter 3: Importing and Exporting Data

5. Section 2: Behind the Scenes

6. Chapter 4: Securing Access to Data

7. Chapter 5: Setting Up the User Interface

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Business Logic

9. Chapter 7: Building Business Process Automation

10. Chapter 8: Generating Data Analytics with Reports and Dashboards

11. Section 3: A Step Closer to the Exam

12. Chapter 9: Configuring the Mobile Features

13. Chapter 10: Understanding the Social Features

14. Chapter 11: Managing the App Building Process

15. Chapter 12: Studying for the Certified Platform App Builder Exam

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Building dashboards in the Lightning Platform

Dashboards are used to visualize underlying report data and can help users to more easily understand how business information is changing and data trends are being impacted. The core elements of dashboards consist of source reports, dashboard filters, and dashboard components.

The source reports that are used to feed dashboards are the same reports that we covered earlier in this chapter and these source reports provide the data that is visualized in the dashboard components and each dashboard component has a single source report.

Although each dashboard component has a single source report, you can reuse reports in more than one dashboard component.

As an app builder, you will need to understand the building of dashboards in the Lightning Platform and, for the Certified Platform App Builder exam, it is important to understand the following terms: