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Andrew Fawcett
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Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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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:

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. However, to import Race information (which is a related child object to Season), the Season and Fasted Lap By record IDs are required, which will typically not be present in a Race import CSV file by default. Note that IDs are unique across the platform and cannot be shared between orgs.

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Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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