Salesforce Objects

Salesforce Objects

Objects are database tables that allows us to store data specific to organization in salesforce.

There are two type of objects in salesforce. They are.

1. Standard Objects : The objects provided by salesforce.com is called standard objects. examples of standard objects are accounts, contacts, opportunities, Leads, products, campaigns,cases, users, contracts,Report and dashboards etc…

Standard objects in Salesforce

Salesforce has a set of standard objects. A very highlevel overview of these objects is included below.

Object	Description
1.      Account	Individuals or companies involved in business relationship. These could be customers, partners or competitors.
2.      Contact	Individuals within an account
3.      Opportunity	Potential revenue generating activity or event
4.      Case	Description of the problem that a customer may have raised
5.      Solution	Description of an issue and its resolution. Solution knowledge base refers to collection of all solutions in an organization.
6.      Forecast	Estimated quarterly revenue of an organization
7.      Document	These are stored in folders. Folders determine access to the documents.
8.      Report	Analysis of data stored in standard or custom objects
9.      Dashboart	Groups of charts or graphical data generated from reports
10.  Activity	These include tasks and calendar events
11.  Product	Items that are sold to the customer
12.  Campaign	Marketing projects
13.  Lead	Companies that may be interested in the product.

2. Custom Object: The objects created by us are called custom objects. Custom objects store information that is unique and important to your organization. Custom objects are the heart of any application. Custom objects provide a structure for sharing data.

Custom objects have properties such as

Standard Fields[4] | Custom Fields & Relationships[0] | Validation Rules[0] | Page Layouts[1] | Field Sets[0] | Compact Layouts[1] |Search Layouts[4] | Buttons, Links, and Actions[8] | Apex Sharing Reasons[0] | Apex Sharing Recalculation[0] | Object Limits[10]

Creating Salesforce Custom Object

To create custom object go to Setup -> Build-> Create -> Objects ->Click on new custom object  button and enter label name, plural label and object name.

And also enter Record Name according to the data type.

There are two data types available to create record name, those are

1. TEXT

2. Auto Number.

And also we have following optional features while creating object.

Allow reports: If we check this check box then only these objects are available to create reports.

Allow Activities: If we check this chis check box then we are able to create activities on this object.

Track Field History: If we check this check box then only we are to track fields. We can track up to 20 fields for single object.

And also we following deployment Status

In development: If we check this check box, this object is still in development mode. This object is not available for deployments.

Deployed: After selecting this check box then only it will be available for deployment.

The following options are available only when creating custom object first time.

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Launch new custom tab wizard after saving this custom object

After completing all the details click on save.

If we does not select “Launch new custom tab wizard” from object creation page, the object will save with out tab appearance. In this case we have to create tab for this object. If we select this check box the object will save and tab will be created and appeared.

Object limit