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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide
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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

by Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
12h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Roll-up summary fields

In this section, we'll dive deeper into the use of roll-up summary fields. Let's summarize what we already know about them:

  • A roll-up summary field is a type of field only available on a master-detail relationship's parent object.
  • It is used to perform a calculation based upon a numeric value of child records.
  • A roll-up summary field will grab information from related child object records and perform some calculation with them. Possible calculations are COUNT, SUM, MIN, and MAX.
  • It is recalculated whenever you insert, update, or delete one or more of the children, whenever a detailed record is saved to the database.
  • You can create up to 25 RUS on a per object basis. This can be increased exceptionally, by submitting ...
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