posted Nov 7, 2010, 12:08 PM by Ezra Kenigsberg
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updated Nov 9, 2010, 10:25 AM
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What have I learned over the past week? - Salesforce has a weird data-security backdoor: APIs 7 and earlier ignore Validation Rules. This means API-enabled users can push bad records into Salesforce using, say, Excel Connector, and there isn't a thing administrators can do about it. If you think this is a problem--and I do!--I encourage you to vote for this idea. Let me know if you can think of some other way of preventing users from doing this.
- There's a funky tool out there called SuperCell that's like Apex Explorer or Force.com Explorer, but can also save queries, export query results to Excel, and browse object & field attributes. (The paid version looks like an Excel Connector replacement.) I prefer Synchronizer, but I'm biased!
Thanks to Symantec's Brian Driver for pointing out #1 to me! |
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