When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

• Create validation rules to enforce data quality
• Prevent invalid records from being saved
• Generate validation rule metadata with formulas
• Add business logic validation to objects
• Troubleshoot deployment errors related to validation rules

Specification

ValidationRule Metadata Specification

Overview

Validation Rules are declarative metadata components used to enforce data quality and business logic in Salesforce. They evaluate a formula expression when a record is saved and prevent the save operation if the expression returns TRUE.