SalesForceGlossaryHtoN Flashcards
Hierarchy Custom Settings
A type of custom setting that uses a built-in hierarchical logic that lets you ?ersonalize?settings for specific profiles or users. The hierarchy logic checks the organization, profile, and user settings for the current user and returns the most specific, or lowest, value. In the hierarchy, settings for an organization are overridden by profile settings, which, in turn, are overridden by user settings.
Home Organization
The organization used for retrieving components to a local file system. If using the Force.com IDE, the home organization is the organization used to create a project. If using the Force.com Migration Tool, the home organization is the server you specify in build.properties when you retrieve components.
Home Tab
Starting page from which users can choose sidebar shortcuts and options, view current tasks and activities, or select another tab.
Hover Detail
Hover details display an interactive overlay containing detailed information about a record when users hover the mouse over a link to that record in the Recent Items
HTTP Debugger
An application that can be used to identify and inspect SOAP requests that are sent from the AJAX Toolkit. They behave as proxy servers running on your local machine and allow you to inspect and author individual requests.
ID
See Salesforce Record ID.
IdeaExchange
A forum where salesforce.com customers can suggest new product concepts, promote favorite enhancements, interact with product managers and other customers, and preview what salesforce.com is planning to deliver in future releases. Visit IdeaExchange at ideas.salesforce.com.
Immediate Action
A workflow action that executes instantly when the conditions of a workflow rule are met.
Import Wizard
A tool for importing data into your Salesforce organization, accessible from Setup.
Inline S-Control
S-controls have been superseded by Visualforce pages. After March 2010 organizations that have never created s-controls, as well as new organizations, won t be allowed to create them. Existing s-controls will remain unaffected, and can still be edited.An s-control that displays within a record detail page or dashboard, rather than on its own page.
Instance
The cluster of software and hardware represented as a single logical server that hosts an organization s data and runs their applications. The Force.com platform runs on multiple instances, but data for any single organization is always consolidated on a single instance.
Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
A software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software developers including a source code editor, testing and debugging tools, and integration with source code control systems.
Integration Testing
An intermediate phase of software testing in which individual projects are combined and tested as a group. Integration testing follows unit testing and precedes system testing.
Integration User
A Salesforce user defined solely for client apps or integrations. Also referred to as the logged-in user in a SOAP API context.
ISO Code
The International Organization for Standardization country code, which represents each country by two letters.
Job Bulk API
A job in the Bulk API specifies which object is being processed (for example, Account, Opportunity) and what type of action is being used (insert, upsert, update, or delete). You process a set of records by creating a job that contains one or more batches. See Batch, Bulk API.
Junction Object
A custom object with two master-detail relationships. Using a custom junction object, you can model a many-to-many relationship between two objects. For example, you may have a custom object called Bug that relates to the standard case object such that a bug could be related to multiple cases and a case could also be related to multiple bugs.
Key Pair
See Salesforce Certificate and Key Pair.
Length
Parameter for custom text fields that specifies the maximum number of characters (up to 255) that a user can enter in the field.
Parameter for number
currency, and percent fields that specifies the number of digits you can enter to the left of the decimal point, for example, 123.98 for an entry of 3.
Letterhead
Determines the basic attributes of an HTML email template. Users can create a letterhead that includes attributes like background color, logo, font size, and font color.
License Management Application (LMA)
A free AppExchange app that allows you to track sales leads and accounts for every user who downloads your managed package (app) from the AppExchange.
License Management Organization (LMO)
The Salesforce organization that you use to track all the Salesforce users who install your package. A license management organization must have the License Management Application (LMA) installed. It automatically receives notification every time your package is installed or uninstalled so that you can easily notify users of upgrades. You can specify any Enterprise, Unlimited, Performance, or Developer Edition organization as your license management organization.