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Setup Audit Trail in Salesforce

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Scenario: When you have more than 1 admins, and you want to know who did what, who deleted what and things like this. Solution: Salesforce comes up with solution known as AUDIT TRAILS. The setup audit trail history helps you track the recent setup changes that you and other administrators have made to your organization. This can be especially useful in organizations with multiple administrators. To view the setup audit trail history,  Name|  Setup | Security Controls – View Setup Audit Trail   To download your organization’s full setup history for the past 180 days, click the Download link. The setup audit trail history shows you the 20 most recent setup changes made to your organization. It lists the date of the change, who made it, and what the change was. Additionally, if a delegate (such as an administrator or customer support representative) makes a setup change on behalf of an end-user, the Delegate User column shows the delegate’s username. Permission Needed: In o

Difference in Static Resource, Documents and Attachments in Salesforce

Static resource: Static resources allow you to upload content that you can reference in a Visualforce page, including archives (such as .zip and .jar files), images, stylesheets, JavaScript, and other files. Using a static resource is preferable to uploading a file to the Documents tab because y ou can package a collection of related files into a directory hierarchy and upload that hierarchy as a .zip or .jar archive. You can reference a static resource by name in page markup by using the $Resource global variable instead of hard coding document IDs. In addition, using static resources to refer to JavaScript or cascading style sheets (CSS) is preferable to including the markup inline. Managing this kind of content using static resources allows you to have a consistent look and feel for all your pages and a shared set of JavaScript functionality. A single static resource can be up to 5 MB in size, and an organization can have up to 250 MB of static resources, total. Docume