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Salesforce Admin Basic Questions and Answers

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FIEL DS & FIELD TYPES What are the different field types available in Salesforce? Text, Number, Currency, Date, Date/Time, Percent, Picklist, Multi-Select Picklist, Checkbox, Email, Phone, URL, Text Area, Long Text Area, Rich Text Area, Auto Number, Formula, Roll-Up Summary, Geolocation. What is the difference between a standard field and a custom field? Standard fields are provided by Salesforce by default. Custom fields are created by users as per business needs. What is a formula field? Can you give an example? A formula field calculates values using other fields. Example: A formula field showing Total Price = Quantity * Unit Price. What is a roll-up summary field? On which relationship can you create it? It calculates values (SUM, MIN, MAX, COUNT) from child records. I t can only be created on Master-Detail relationships. What is an auto-number field? Where have you used it? It auto-generates a unique number for each record. Used in objects like Invoice, Order, Case for trackin...
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Formatting the new time field of Salesforce in Visualforce Page

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The Time class in Salesforce is very limited, especially compared to the DateTime class. It doesn't even have its own format method, which I think may be the underlying problem here. Without a format method to accept the formatting string, Salesforce might not be able to properly format the field. So I have created a method which will convert the time in AM/PM and it will show on the vf page as it is formatted. public String formatedTime(Time timeValue){         String hh;         String mm;         String ampm;         if(timeValue != null){             if(timeValue.hour() <= 12){                 if(timeValue.hour() == 0){                     hh = String.valueOf(timeValue.hour() + 12);                 }else{           ...
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Salesforce Licenses

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For Developer Edition: User Licenses (A user license determines the baseline of features that the user can access.) Name Total License Salesforce 2 Salesforce Platform 3 Customer Community Login 5 XOrg Proxy User 2 Work.com Only 3 Customer Portal Manager Custom 5 Identity 10 Customer Community Plus 5 Silver Partner 2 Gold Partner 3 Customer Portal Manager Standard           5 Force.com App Subscription 2 Customer Community Plus Login 5 Partner App Subscription 2 External Identity 5 Partner Community 5 Partner Community Login 5 Customer Community 5 Force.com – Free 2 Chatter Free 5000 Chatter External 500 High Volume Customer Portal 10...
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Difference between SOQL & SOSL

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SOQL SOSL Salesforce object query language Salesforce object search language It is used to retrieve records from salesforce org’s object. SOSL do text-based searching in salesforce orgs. In SOQL object is necessary. In SOSL object is not necessary. Select statement is used. Find keyword is used. Id is by default returned by SOQL statement. SOSL returns by default id’s of matched records. SELECT Id, Name FROM Account WHERE Name = 'Acme' FIND {Joe Smith} IN Name Fields RETURNING lead (name, phone) We can retrieve data from single object or from multiple objects that are related to each other. We can retrieve multiple objects and field values efficiently when the objects may or may not be related to each other. We can Query on only one object. We can query on multiple objects. Governer Limit:  Total number of SOQL queries issued 100 (Synchronousl...
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