You're reading from Mastering Salesforce Experience Cloud Strategies for creating powerful customer interactions

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835466346

Length 328 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Salesforce

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Business Management

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Curating a Digital Experience Strategy FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Defining Your Digital Experience Strategy

3. Chapter 2: Translating Your Audience and Interactions into Meaningful Technology Features

4. Chapter 3: Technology Component Identification – Which Parts of Experience Cloud Do I Need?

5. Part 2: Infrastructure Setup to Support and Customize Design Strategy

6. Chapter 4: Curating Data Models

7. Chapter 5: Understanding Experience Cloud Templates

8. Chapter 6: When to Use Aura Components, Lightning Web Components, and Lightning Runtime Components

9. Part 3: Human-Centric Development

10. Chapter 7: Leveraging Screen Flows versus Apex

11. Chapter 8: Understanding Inputs – Emails, Chats, and Text Messages

12. Chapter 9: Marketing Automation Setup

13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Case Management and Knowledge Bases

14. Part 4: Site Launch

15. Chapter 11: Security – Authentication, Data Sharing, and Encryption

16. Chapter 12: Monitoring Your Site – Salesforce Native Reporting

17. Chapter 13: Site Launch, Maintenance, and Moderation

18. Part 5: Certifications

19. Chapter 14: Best Practices and Certification Test Preparation

20. Index

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