Understanding validation rules
Validation rules are an essential part of ensuring data integrity in Salesforce. They do this by verifying that the data your users enter into a record meets specific standards before the user can save a record. A validation rule can contain a formula or expression that evaluates the data in one or more fields and returns a value of True or False.
Validation rules can be included on any object.
Business use case
As the Salesforce admin for XYZ Widgets, you have successfully created the Account Level formula field. Since this field depends on the Annual Revenue and Employees fields being populated, you want to make sure users enter data into these fields when creating an account. To do this you will need to create a validation rule on the Account object.
Let’s take a look at how we can create this validation rule.
Creating a validation rule
To create the validation rule to meet this requirement we will follow...