2Designing and Building a Data Model

This chapter looks at how to design and build a data model both conceptually and using the features in the Salesforce Lightning Platform.

Using an example scenario that describes business requirements for a data solution, the chapter looks at ways to determine an appropriate data model and identifies the types of data model relationships that exist and can be built in Salesforce. This is a common activity whenever tasked with designing a solution and an essential skill to be learned whenever apps are to be built within the Lightning Platform.

We will look at field types that are available when creating custom fields and understand the impacts of changing field types.

Using the Object Manager setup option and Schema Builder, you will learn how to create custom objects and fields and how Schema Builder can be used in the Lightning Platform to build and view a data model.

Finally, you will be presented with a number of questions about designing and building...