Platform App Builder Flashcards
ADDMONTHS
Returns the date that is the indicated number of months before or after a specified date.
BEGINS
Determines if text begins with specific characters and returns TRUE if it does. FALSE if not. (BEGINS, text, compare_text)
BLANKVALUE
Determines if an expression has a value and returns a substitute expression if it doesn’t. If the expression has a value, returns the value.
BR
Inserts a line break in a string of text.
CASE
Checks a given expression against a series of values. If the expression is equal to a value, returns the corresponding result. If it isn’t equal to any values, it returns the else_result.
CASESAFEID
Converts a 15-character ID to a case-insensitive 18-character ID.
CONTAINS
Compares two arguments of text and returns TRUE if the first argument contains the second argument. If not, return FALSE.
CURRENCYRATE
Returns the conversion rate to the corporate currency for the given currency ISO code. If the currency is invalid, returns 1.0.
DATE
Returns a date value from year, month, and day values you enter.
DATEVALUE
Returns a date value for date/time or text expression.
DATETIMEVALUE
Returns a year, month, day, and GMT time value of a date/time field.
DISTANCE
Calculates the distance between two locations in miles or km.
FIND
Returns the position of a string within a string of text represented as a number.
INCLUDES
Determines if any value selected in a multi-select picklist field equals a text literal you specify.
LEFT
Returns the specified number of characters from the beginning of a text string.
LEN
Returns the number of characters in a specified text string.
MAX
Returns the highest number from a list of numbers.
MID
Returns the specified number of characters from the middle of a text string given the starting position.
MIN
Returns the lowest number from a list of numbers.
RIGHT
Returns the specified number of characters from the end of a text string.
Mobile Only App
Legacy feature. Better to just use Lightning App Navigation method instead.
Callout error - uncommitted work pending. What should the Transaction Control settings be changed to?
If the method contains the “callout=true” attribute, “Let the flow decide”. To avoid the error no matter, the “Always start a new transaction”.
3 column layout on a standard object. How?
Have to create a Visualforce page with a 3-column layout as dynamic forms do not support standard objects.
Allow multiple accounts to be associated with a contact
The ‘Contacts to Multiple Account’ feature must be enable. After that the Related Accounts related list must be added to the Contact page layout and the Related Contacts related list added to the account page layout. The existing Contacts related list on the Account object can be remved as the Related Contacts related list will include direct and indirect contacts.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Accordion
Used to organize your components into collapsible sections. Supported for record and home pages.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Actions & Recommendations
Give your users a to-do list. Show a variety of steps, such as screen flows, quick actions, and recommendations. Can be added to supported object pages.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Activities
Display the timeline of the activities of the record. Appears only if Default Activities View is set to Activity Timeline. Can contain Create a Record quick actions.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Highlights Panel
Displays key record fields along with page-level actions. Come from compact layout assigned to the object.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: List View
Points to a list view and displays the first fedw records from that view. Supports all public and shared list views that associated with standard and custom objects, except activity, ContentVersion, User, UserProfile.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Quip Document Component
Embed Quip documents directly in records.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Related Record
Display the details of a related record, including the details of a parent record. Only used in record pages.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Report Chart
Include a chart from a report. Setting a filter on the report chart data is supported only for record pages, and users only see the filtered data.
LIGHTNING PAGE COMPONENT: Salesforce Survey
Adds an active survey to the page.
Many-to-many relationships
Requires a junction object - a custom object with two master-detail relationships. The junction object inherits the owner from the primary object (the first master-detail relationship).
How can an approval request be triggered?
By using a button, process (“Submit for Approval” action), flow (“Submit for Approval” flow core action), or programmatically using action.
Why wouldn’t there be a link to a flow interview in the email notification after a failed flow?
A flow interview isn’t saved if the flow is part of a managed package and isn’t a template, the flow isn’t activated, if the error came from a platform event-triggered flow, or the error was thrown as a result of an Apex test method.
What values can be shown in roll-up summary fields?
They can display a value in a master record based on the values of fields in a detail record.
What operations can be performed directly through the graphical user interface of Data Loader?
Upload Attachments, Upload documents and links into content libraries, Hard Delete Records
What are the 3 layers of an application?
User Interface, Business Logic, Data Model
What are the 4 declarative application building blocks of the user interface?
Applications, Tabs, Page Layouts, Record Types
What are the capacities of the different sandboxes?
Developer - 200 MB
Dev Pro - 1 GB
Partial - 5 GB
Full - same as source
Where do fields and actions come from on the highlights panel on a record detail page?
Fields from compact layout, actions from page layout.
