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Salesforce Process Builder Quick Start Guide
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Salesforce Process Builder Quick Start Guide

by Rakesh Gupta
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
170 pages
3h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Hands on 10 – using custom metadata types in a Flow

Custom metadata types are similar to custom objects. They allow application developers to create custom sets of data, as well as to create and associate custom data with an organization. All custom metadata type data is available in the application cache, which allows for efficient access, without the cost of repeated queries to the database. It is mainly used to store information that will be frequently accessed from Apex code. It will perform better than a custom object, as it doesn't have to be queried. Building a custom metadata type is very similar to building a custom object. The main difference that you will notice is the __mdt suffix at the end of the custom metadata type, as opposed ...

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