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Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide
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Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

by Enrico Murru
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
13h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Validation rules

I bet you already know what a validation rule is, but let's discuss them again. A validation rule is a feature that is used to improve data quality. It is checked before a record is saved in the database.

They are defined by the following:

  • A name
  • An Active flag
  • A condition (formula) that should trigger the error (a chain of conditions on fields of the object or related objects that triggers an error if evaluated as true)
  • An error message that is displayed to the user
  • A place where the error can be displayed

Here is an example of a validation rule:

Example of a simple validation rule

This validation rule prevents a user from ...

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