How do I get audit fields in Salesforce?
To access this, the click path in Lightning is: Setup -> User Interface -> User Interface. In Classic, it’s: Setup-> Customize-> User Interface. On this panel, check the “Enable ‘Set Audit Fields upon Record Creation’ and ‘Update Records with Inactive Owners’ User Permissions.”
What are audit fields?
A field audit is a comprehensive tax audit conducted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at either the taxpayer’s home, place of business or accountant’s office, so they can examine your individual or business financial records to ensure you filed your tax return accurately.
What is the difference between custom metadata and custom object?
Custom metadata types are meta metadata. That’s right, they are twice as “meta!” The records of a custom metadata type are themselves metadata, not data. This means that, unlike custom objects or custom settings records, the records of custom metadata types can be deployed from a sandbox with change sets or packaged…
What is the name of a custom metadata field?
The non-object-qualified name of a custom field in the custom metadata type. This value corresponds to the name of a field on the custom metadata record’s custom metadata type. Include the namespace (if the type is from a managed package) and the __c suffix. The name of the custom metadata type isn’t required.
How to create custom metadata types in Salesforce?
To make the fields on your custom metadata types unique and indexable, mark your fields as Unique and ExternalId. A description of the custom metadata type. This field can contain a maximum of 1,000 characters. Represents one or more custom fields in the custom metadata type. Indicates the gender of the noun that represents the object.
Do you need to test custom metadata types?
Because your org’s functionality doesn’t rely on specific accounts or opportunities, you don’t need to write tests for them. But when you deal with records that affect the way an org behaves, such is the case with custom metadata types, you do want to test those records.
What’s the difference between null and custommetadatavalue?
Using null field values differs from leaving out the CustomMetadataValue for a particular field entirely. If you leave out the CustomMetadataValue, the value of the field doesn’t change. The field’s value is null for newly deployed custom metadata records and left at its previous value for updated custom metadata records.