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Learning Force.com Application Development

By : Chamil Madusanka
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Learning Force.com Application Development

By: Chamil Madusanka

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Force.com Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Data management tools


The Force.com platform provides two types of data management tools:

  • Cloud-based tools

  • API-based tools

We can use these types of tools to import data or export data or to transfer ownerships.

Cloud-based tools

Cloud-based tools are offered in the Force.com platform itself and we don't have to download the particular tool to our local computer. These types of tools are easy to use and we can perform the particular operations quickly. The following tools can be categorized under the cloud-based data management tools:

  • Import Wizard

  • Data Export

  • Mass Transfer Records

  • Mass Delete Records

  • Analytic Snapshot

  • Data Loader (which will be discussed in Appendix A, Force.com Tools)

The data import wizard

The import wizard is a major cloud-based tool on the Force.com platform. It is used to import data into the organization quickly. The import wizard tool supports loading Account, Contact, Leads, Campaign Members, Solutions, or any custom objects. Using the import wizard, we can import up to 50...