• You don’t need to have any specific skills for taking this training. A basic knowledge of Salesforce, CRM and its functionality is beneficial.

Salesforce Fundamentals

• Introduction to CRM concepts and Cloud computing, Salesforce.com
• Overview and Fundamentals
• Understanding Salesforce Platform
• Understanding Salesforce Terminologies and Introducing the force.com platform, Multitenancy, and Cloud
• Understanding Salesforce Metadata and API
• Understanding Salesforce Architecture
• Describe the capabilities of the core CRM objects in the Salesforce schema, Given a scenario
• Identify the boundaries of declarative customization and the use cases for programmatic customization
• Identify common scenarios for extending an org using the AppExchange
• Declarative vs. Programmatic Changes and Customizations

Data Modeling and Management

• Given a scenario, determine the appropriate data model
• Describe the capabilities of the various relationship types and the implications of each on record access
• The user interface, and reporting
• Identify the considerations when changing a field’s type
• Given a set of requirements, identify the considerations and select the appropriate field type
• Describe the capabilities and considerations of the schema builder
• Describe the options and considerations when importing and exporting data
• Describe the capabilities of and use cases for external objects,
• Understanding Salesforce Trust, Data Model, Fields, Relationship Fields, Junction Object, Schema Builder, Business Logic
• Data Management in Salesforce, Data Import Wizard vs. Data Loader
• Exporting Data, Apex Class Variables, and Methods
• Access Modifiers, Class Constructors
• Apex, Apex Development Process, Apex Development Tools, Apex Governor Limits

Securing and Sharing Data

• Describe the features and capabilities available to restrict and extend object, record, and field access
• Given a set of business requirements
• Determine the appropriate sharing solution
• Application Development Tools in Salesforce
• AppExchange as Application Development Strategy,
• Finding and Navigating Salesforce Documentation

Business Logic and Process Automation

• Describe the capabilities of and use cases for record types
• Describe the capabilities of and use cases for formula fields
• Describe the capabilities of, use cases for, and implications of roll-up summary fields
• Describe the capabilities of and use cases for validation rules
• Describe the capabilities of and use cases for approval processes
• Describe the capabilities of and use cases for workflow
• Visual workflow, and the Lightning Process Builder

Collaborating with Chatter

• Chatter features and use case

Analyzing Data with Reports and Dashboards

• Determine the features and capabilities available when creating reports
• Report types and dashboards

 

Salesforce Development

• Describe the considerations when developing in a multi-tenant environment
• Describe how the Salesforce platform features map to the MVC pattern
• The ‘this’ Keyword, Inheritance, Sharing, Interface, System Classes and Methods, Standard Object and Field API Names, Relationships in Apex
• Basic Syntax of SOQL, SOQL Functions, SOQL Variable Binding, SOQL “for” Loops, SOQL Keywords
• Relationship Queries, Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL), SOQL vs SOSL
• Debugging Using Debug Logs, Anonymous Block, Another Debugging Tool, Apex Testing
• Unit Tests and Test Classes, System Test Class Methods
• Accessing Private Variables and Methods in Test Classes, Test Data, Unit Tests

Introduction to Apex Code

• Language Constructs describe how to declare variables and constants in Apex and how to assign values using expressions
• Collections overview(Lists, Sets, and Maps), Invoking Apex, Classes, Objects and Interfaces
• Describe how to use and apply Apex control flow statements
• Describe how to use basic SOSL, SOQL, and DML statements, Apex Design Patterns, Dynamic Apex, Batch Apex, Debugging Apex, Anonymous Scripts
• Management of Debug Logs, Force.com IDE, Dev Console, Workbench
• Data Manipulation Language (DML), SaveResult Class, Transaction Control, Database, DML Options, DML and Loops, SOQL, DML, and Governor Limits
• Apex Triggers, Triggers, and Their Execution Order, Creating and Viewing Triggers, Trigger Context Variables
• Understanding Trigger Events, Trigger Helper Class Pattern, Bulkified Triggers
• Handling Recursion in Triggers, Restrict Save Operations with addError()
• Apex Trigger Best Practices, Exceptions, Exception Statements, System-Defined Exception, Exception Methods

Apex Triggers

• Governor limits, Testing Apex
• Utilization of Start/Stop, Testing Framework, Bulkified Code
• Creation/Loading of test data
• Testing for profile security using system.runAs

Visualforce

• Using javascript/HTML/CSS
• Describe how to write Visualforce controllers
• Describe when and how to use standard Visualforce controllers vs. Apex custom controllers and controller extensions, Visualforce Page,
• Understanding the MVC Pattern
• How Visualforce is Architected, Tools for Visualforce Development
• Visualforce Tags and its Syntax, Types of Binding, Using Static Resources with Visualforce
• What is a Visualforce Controller?
• Standard Controllers, Standard List Controllers, Custom Controllers, Custom List Controller, Controller Extensions, Controller Methods, Order of Execution
• Overview of Salesforce Lightning
• Lightning Component Framework Structure
• Benefits of Using Lightning Component Framework

Slowly Changing Dimension in Informatica

• What is SCD?
• Processing in XML
• Learn how to handle flat file, list and define various transformations
• Implementing ‘for loop’ in power center
• Concepts of pushdown optimization and partitioning
• What is constraint-based loading?
• What is incremental aggregation?

Salesforce1 Lightning Process Builder

• Introduction to Salesforce1, action layouts for Salesforce1
• Lightning Process Builder, creating a process using visual layout
• Create the whole process rather than using multiple workflow rules
• Process for working together in one UI for different users

Salesforce Account Sign-up

• Two types of free accounts, lifetime free developer account, 30 days trial production account
• Understanding how to sign up for the lifetime free developer account
• Account creation at https://developer.force.com.

Salesforce Admin Sign-up

• Creation of custom domain in Salesforce
• Defining of the custom domain name for the organization at https://.lightning.force.com
• Testing the domain, event-driven lightning framework, Aura Framework
• Deploying the domain, using Developer Console
• Creating Lightning Components

Using HTML and CSS style

• Using CSS and HTML for styling Lightning Components
• Referencing Components in Lightning App
• Creating a CSS file in Developer Console
• Linking to Lightning Component
• Uploading an external style sheet to a static resource

Component Attributes

• Understanding what attributes are, member variables in Apex Class, typed fields on a specific instance of a component
• Referencing from within Component’s markup using expression syntax
• Making components dynamic with attributes, using aura: attribute> tag to add an attribute to component or app

Lighting Components

• Understanding the client-side controller
• Defining functions, binding to components
• Passing value to functions and other JavaScript based operations
• Defining attribute in the application, referencing component in the application

Composition of components

• Creating fine-grained components in larger components
• Fitting components together
• Creating simple components like c:LC and c:LC2, creating wrapper component c:wrappercomp containing simple components

Conditional Statements

• The IF Else conditional statement, aura: if, isTrue expression
• Instantiating components in either its body or the Else attribute

Apex Providers

• Accessing data using Value Providers, encapsulating related value together
• The value providers for a components v (view) and c (controller)

Out of the box Components

• Using out-of-the-box components for Salesforce1
• Lightning Experience, Lightning Apps
• Components belonging to different namespaces, Aura, Force, force Chatter, force Community
• Lightning design system styling, lightning namespace components, user interface

Common UI and UI Namespaces

• Understanding common UI, using aura: component
• UI components such as UI: input and UI: output, easy handling of common UI
• Component styling and extension

UI Component dynamic update

• Dynamically updating UI components
• JavaScript controller actions for firing events in Lightning Component Framework
• Event declaration using aura: event tag in a .evt resource

Event Handling

• Event-driven programming using JavaScript, Java Swing
• The component event and application event
• Writing handlers in JavaScript controller actions

Server-side Controller

• Creating the server-side controller in Apex, @Aura Enabled annotation
• Annotation to enable the client and server-side access to the controlled method
• Calling a server-side controller action from a client-side controller

Hands-on example for the server-side controller

• A real example of deploying Server side controller by pulling data from the Opportunity object
• Creating a Client side controller to invoke the Server side controller and passing the returned value to components

Building Lighting Applications

• Building Contact Management App on Lightning Framework
• Uploading CSS file and uploading it to static resource for referencing in application
• Creating contact Controller Apex Class
• Pulling data from contact and returning the list of contacts
• Designing User Interface by using HTML and CSS Classes provided in Bootstrap Style sheet

Project 1

 

Title: Restaurant-Locator Lightning Component

Objective: Build a Lightning Component with Yelp’s Search API that displays a list of businesses near a certain location

Requirements:
Creation of component layout

Retrieving and Displaying data

Adding custom CSS

Making the component available in Salesforce1

Problem Statement:
How to create an initial component layout

How to retrieve and display data

How to leverage the contact record

How to make the component context-aware

Project 2

Title: Conference Management App

Objective: Build a simple conference management app with Apex and Visualforce

Requirements:
Creation of data model and application

Creation of Apex class and Apex triggers

Accessing Data Using SOQL and DML

Creation of a Visualforce Page

Creation of controller extension

Using JavaScript in Visualforce Pages

Using the Salesforce Platform APIs

Problem Statement:
How to create data model and application

How to use Javascript in Visualforce pages

How to use Salesforce platform APIs

Salesforce Lightning Project

Project: Building Lightning Application

Topics: Building component to call client-side controller function and handle data, alternate method for pulling contact details based on ID, creating component to handle the event, creating client-side controller for binding user event and calling new Apex Controller method, adding fields to components, querying fields in the controller method and displaying on the screen.