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jay 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.
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.
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