Data Modelling & Management

With Blanca Leon-Carter

The second meeting of the Platform Developer I study group is now available, in addition to the following resources. This week we focused on data modelling and management.

• Slide deck – both Google Presentation and PDF versions are in the Week 2 folder in our Google Drive

• Our homework is:

  • Prepare for Your Salesforce Platform Developer I Credential

  • Badges listed under the “Salesforce Fundamentals” and the “Data Modeling & Management” task areas part of the trailmix linked above.

  • Add to our Study Group Resources Google Sheet for Flashcards

  • Please use hashtag #LBAjourneytoPD1 on social media

Thank you to Blanca and also to Don Robins for his support.

Slides: Platform Developer I Study Group Week 2

Salesforce Fundamentals

With Blanca Leon-Carter

Blanca’s first Platform Developer I session kicks off with a guest speaker – Mark Adcock – to join in taking us through the fundamentals of the Salesforce platform.

Study Group 5: Apex Basics

With Susannah St-Germain

This month had our biggest turnout yet! 73 registrations and we filled the Hangout! Thank you to everybody for your support, and thank you to Susannah for giving us her time to deliver a fantastic presentation.

This month, the community voted to work through one of the key topics in the Platform Developer I exam: Apex basics.

We covered the following:

• What is the PD1 exam?

• Where does Apex fit in?

• What is Apex?

• Working with sObjects

• Retrieving Records from the Database

• Manipulating Records in Apex

• Writing Records to the Database

• Apex Deadly Sins

• Recap