What is difference between custom metadata and custom settings?

What is difference between custom metadata and custom settings?

Custom metadata are like custom setting but records in custom metadata type considered as metadata rather than data. These are typically used to define application configurations that need to be migrated from one environment to another, or packaged and installed.

What do you know about custom metadata?

Custom metadata is customizable, deployable, packageable, and upgradeable application metadata. First, you create a custom metadata type, which defines the form of the application metadata. Then you build reusable functionality that determines the behavior based on metadata of that type.

How are custom settings similar to custom objects?

Custom settings are similar to custom objects. Application developers can create custom sets of data and associate custom data for an organization, profile, or specific user. All custom settings data is exposed in the application cache, which enables efficient access without the cost of repeated queries to the database.

How are custom settings used in Salesforce applications?

Custom settings are similar to custom objects and enable application developers to create custom sets of data, as well as create and associate custom data for an organization, profile, or specific user. All custom settings data is exposed in the application cache, which enables efficient access without the cost of repeated queries to the database.

Which is an example of a custom setting?

Examples of list data include city, state, Zip code for the country. A hierarchy custom setting allows us to “personalize” settings for specific profiles or users. It can control user or profile in the organization.

How to get the value from custom setting?

Setup =>Build=>Develop=>Custom setting=>New Click on new to create fields After creating fields click on Manage Click on new Here without querying from the record we can fetch the data from server and display in viusalforce page using custom setting. How to get the Value from custom setting