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jay wolfejay wolfe 

first and last name?! (lightning specialist #8)

my question is very basic. i have read many things on how to get through this 8th stage of the lightning experience specialist superbadge. but in order for it to make sense in my brain, i cannot get what everyone seems to think is the proper formatting of the explorers.csv sheet.

to me, in my thinking, on the explorers object, there is a field called 'name'. there are no fields for 'first name' or 'last name', so why on earth would i wish to parse out the 'full name' column of the .csv to show first/last? again, in my mind, it would be importing this parsed out first/last name data placing it...nowhere, as there are no specified areas for first/last.

if i can get an answer to this very basic question, then it all will likely make sense to me moving forward. thank you.
GovindarajGovindaraj
Hi Jay,

This is because 'Name' is a compound field.

Compound fields are text fields (some times numbers too) but while importing we provide 'First Name' and 'Last Name' separately.

For more details. 
https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/ForumsMain?id=9062I000000IEs6QAG

Please let us know, if this helps.

Thanks.
Govindaraj.S