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Learning Force.com Application Development
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Learning Force.com Application Development

by Chamil Madusanka
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
406 pages
8h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781782172796Supplemental Content