Salesforce terms starting with J

A Job in Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 is a container that represents a single bulk data operation such as insert, update, upsert, delete, or query. To process large datasets, a developer creates a job specifying the object and operation type, uploads CSV data to the job, and then closes it to signal that all data has been provided. The job then processes asynchronously in the background. Each job transitions through states: Open (accepting data), UploadComplete (data submitted, awaiting processing), InProgress (actively processing), JobComplete (finished successfully), Failed, or Aborted. Results, including successful and failed records, can be retrieved via the job's ID.

In Marketing Cloud Journey Builder, Journey Analytics is the dashboard that shows performance for a specific customer journey - entry volume, exits by decision split, message activity at each step, conversion against the journey's goals, and the contact-level path each subscriber took. Admins use it to evaluate whether a live journey is actually moving the right behavior; builders use it during design iteration to decide which branches to tune.

In Salesforce development, a lightweight data-interchange format widely used in REST API requests and responses. It's also used in Apex JSON class parsing, serialization, and custom metadata storage.

A Junction Object is a custom object with two Master-Detail Relationships that creates a many-to-many relationship between two other objects. It acts as a bridge table, allowing records from one object to be associated with multiple records from another object and vice versa.