Advanced Apex, integrations, testing & architecture patterns
Actionable Relationship Center (ARC) is a Salesforce Industries feature that renders the network of records around a focal point, typically an Account, Contact, or Household, as an interactive visual …
In Salesforce Data Cloud, an Activation is the published delivery of a segment of unified profiles to a downstream destination, such as Marketing Cloud Engagement, Google Ads, Meta Ads, an Amazon S3 e…
An Add-on in Salesforce is a licensed product that extends the functionality of a base edition (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and so on) without requiring an edition u…
Advanced Search is the secondary search window Salesforce opens when the quick, name-only results are not enough to identify a record. In Lightning Experience it is the modal that appears from a looku…
The AJAX Toolkit is the JavaScript library Salesforce historically provided so client-side code could call the SOAP API and Apex web service methods directly from the browser. It exposed an sforce.con…
All Sites is the Setup page in Salesforce Experience Cloud that lists every Experience Cloud site (formerly called a Community) configured in the org. The page is the entry point to Experience Builder…
An Anonymous Block in Apex is a piece of Apex code that runs once without being saved to the org as a class, trigger, or scheduled job. Developers run anonymous blocks to perform one-time tasks: clean…
The Ant Migration Tool is a retired Java and Apache Ant command-line utility that moved Salesforce metadata between a local directory and an org over the Metadata API. Salesforce retired it with the S…
An Anti-Join in SOQL is a query pattern that returns records from one object only when they do not have a matching record on a related object. The canonical example is finding Accounts with no Opportu…
Apex is Salesforce's proprietary, strongly typed, object-oriented programming language that runs on the Lightning Platform servers. It looks like Java syntactically but is purpose-built for the Salesf…
An Apex class is a reusable container for Apex code, holding properties, methods, constructors, inner classes, and constants. It is the building block of every nontrivial Apex codebase. Triggers deleg…
The Apex Connector Framework is the Salesforce extension point for Salesforce Connect that lets developers build custom data sources, exposing external systems as External Objects in Salesforce. When …
An Apex Controller is a server-side Apex class that backs a Salesforce UI page, exposing methods that the front-end can call to load and persist data. The role of a controller is to bridge the UI runt…
Apex Exception Email is a Salesforce Setup configuration that controls which email addresses receive notifications when an unhandled Apex exception fires in the org. By default, Salesforce sends the e…
The Apex Flex Queue is the Salesforce holding queue for batch Apex jobs that have been submitted but not yet started. The platform runs up to five concurrent batch jobs per org; any batch class submit…
Apex Jobs is the Salesforce Setup page that monitors every asynchronous Apex execution in the org: batch Apex, scheduled Apex, Future methods, and Queueable jobs. The page lives at Setup, Environments…
Apex Page is the metadata-API name for what most Salesforce users call a Visualforce Page. The Metadata API type is ApexPage, the file extension is .page, and the matching Apex controller is an ApexCl…
Apex Settings is the Salesforce Setup page that controls org-wide behavior of the Apex runtime. It governs how the compiler treats deployments, whether unit tests run in parallel, how callout response…
Apex Test Execution is the Salesforce Setup page that lets administrators and developers launch Apex unit-test runs interactively, monitor progress, and inspect results. It lives at Setup, Custom Code…
An Apex trigger is a block of Apex code that runs automatically when records on a specific object are inserted, updated, deleted, or undeleted. It is the platform's primary hook for executing custom l…
Apex Managed Sharing is the Salesforce sharing mechanism that lets Apex code create, modify, and delete share records programmatically, applying access grants that standard sharing rules cannot expres…
ApexGuru Insights is a Salesforce platform feature that uses AI-powered static and runtime analysis to surface performance, security, and reliability issues in an org's Apex code. The tool produces In…
An API (Application Programming Interface) in Salesforce is the programmatic interface that external systems use to interact with the platform: read records, create records, update records, delete rec…
API Catalog is the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform feature that organises every API specification, implementation, and consumer documentation in one searchable repository so developers, architects, and par…
