Salesforce Interview Questions and Answers – 2
12. What is a “Self Relationship”?
Self Relationship is a lookup relationship to the same object. Suppose let’s take an object “Merchandise”. Here we can create relationship in between the Account to Account (same object) object. That is called “Self Relationship”.
13. What are the main things need to consider in the “Master-Detail Relationship”?
Record level access is determined by the parent, Mandatory on child for reference of parent, cascade delete (if you delete the parent, it can cascade delete the child).
14. What is difference between trigger and workflow?
Workflow
Workflow is automated process that fired an action based on Evaluation criteria and rule criteria.
We can access a workflow across the object.
We cannot perform DML operation on workflow
We cannot query from database
Trigger
Trigger is a piece of code that executes before or after a record is inserted or updated.
We can access the trigger across the object and related to that objects
We can use 20 DML operations in one trigger.
We can use 20 SOQL’s from data base in one trigger.
15. What is Wrapper class?
A Wrapper class is a class whose instances are collection of other objects.
It is used to display different objects on a Visual Force page in same table.
16. What is Difference between SOQL and SOSL?
SOQL(Salesforce Object Query Language)
Using SOQL we can Search only on one object at a time.
We can query on all fields of any datatype
We can use SOQL in Triggers and classes.
We can perform DML operation on query results.
SOSL(Salesforce object Search Language)
Using SOSL we can search on many objects at a time.
We can query only on fields whose data type is text,phone and Email.
We can use in calsses but not in Triggers.
We cannot perform DML operation on search result
17. What is difference insert() and database .insert() ?
Using insert method we can insert the records but if any error occurs in any record system will throw an error insertion fail and none of the records are inserted.
If we want to execute partially success of bulk insert operation we will use database .insert.
18. What is Static Resources?
Using Static Resources we can upload images, zip files, jar files, java script and CSS files that can be referred in a visual force page.
The maximum size of Static Resources for an organization is 250mB.
19. How to call java script using Static Resource in Visual Force page?
Add java script file in Static Resource setup -> develop -> Static Resources -> click on ‘New’ -> Name: filename and add file from local desktop and save.
We can use that file as follows in Visual Force page
<apex: includescript values=” {! $Resource.fileName}”/>
20. What is sharing rule?
If we want to give the access to other users we use sharing rules.
21. How many ways we can share a record?
Role Hierarchy:
If we add a user to a role, the user is above in the role hierarchy will have read access.
Setup -> manage users -> roles -> setup roles -> click on ‘add role’ -> provide name and save.
OWD:
Defines the base line setting for the organization.
Defines the level of access to the user can see the other user’s record
OWD can be Private, Public Read Only, Public Read and Write.
Setup -> Security Controls -> sharing settings -> Click on ‘Edit’
Manual Sharing:
Manual Sharing is sharing a single record to single user or group of users.
We can see this button detail page of the record and this is visible only when OWD setting is private.
Criteria Based Sharing rules:
If we want to share records based on condition like share records to group of users
Whose criteria are country is India.
Setup -> security controls -> sharing settings -> select the object and provide name and
Conditions and save
Apex sharing:
Share object is available for every object(For Account object share object is AccountShare ). If we want to share the records using apex we have to create a record to the share object.