Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

Creating custom objects and custom fields

As explained before, we need objects to store data, such as a sheet in Excel. In our case, we would like to store movies, actors, actresses, directors, production companies, and maybe more later on. We will need objects for those. For each record of a particular type, you also want to capture some specifics/attributes. For example, if we create a movie record, we don't only want to save the title, but maybe also the release date, the budget, the director, a cover image, and so on. Just like in Excel, the columns you define to capture data in Salesforce correspond to fields for saving data about a particular record. So, let's create some of those and give our app some body (build our app out a bit ...