Defining data validation

Data validation is crucial for your business: if data is misaligned, dirty, or simply missing key pieces, it can rapidly become useless and even dangerous for your business. Would you drive a car without the lights on? I don't think so.

That's why the Salesforce platform delivers different ways to provide data validation on your CRM. Here, I cite the most often used methods of data validation:

• Field type built-in validation

• Field marked as required

• Validation rules

• Apex triggers / Lightning components

  Note

  Apex triggers give you the most freedom in defining validation criteria on record creation/update, bringing automation to the next level: it requires strong Apex coding skills though. The same applies to Lightning components, which are used to build user interfaces to deliver highly customized user experiences.

  Further reading

  We won't cover Apex triggers in this book (as this is a pure coding topic) but if you come from...