Types of relationship in Salesforce
You can establish relationships between objects in Salesforce. You can associate one object with another. For example, you have an object named Meetup (to store information about a meeting), and you want to associate it with another object, Participant (to store information about participants for a particular meeting) so that you can associate the Participant records with the respective Meetup record. These relationship types also determine how they handle record sharing, data deletion capability, and required fields in page layouts. Salesforce provides the following types of relationships that can be established among objects:
- Master-detail relationship
- Lookup relationship
- Self-relationship
- External lookup relationship ...
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