Importing and exporting data

Salesforce provides a number of its own tools for importing and exporting data, as well as a number of third-party options based on the Salesforce APIs; these are listed on AppExchange. When importing records with other record relationships, it is not possible to predict and include the IDs of related records, such as the Season record ID when importing Race records; this section will present a solution to this.

Salesforce provides Data Import Wizard, which is available under the Setup menu:

Importing and exporting data

It is straightforward to import a CSV file with a list of race Seasons since this is a top-level object and has no other object dependencies. ...

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