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The Salesforce Formula engine that processes formula fields and default value formulas is not available to Pulsar when operating offline, so Pulsar cannot rely on it for maintaining formula fields and default values. For this reason, Pulsar provides this functionality via a group of flexible Pulsar Settings that define the fields affected, the order in which they are processed, and the formula logic for each field. The formula logic is implemented using Pulsar Settings Language (PSL). Just as in Salesforce, default values are used during record creation and formula fields are used to calculate the proper values for fields throughout the life of the record.

Please note that regardless of the values calculated for formula fields in Pulsar, if the same field has a formula defined on Salesforce, the Salesforce formula supersedes the Pulsar formula when the record is synced to the server.

Usage

Formula fields and default value formulas follow an identical pattern when defined using Pulsar Settings. For each affected object or record type:

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The formula field order and default value field order settings both allow you to specify a list of field API names separated by commas, newlines, or semicolons. The key optionally allows you to narrow the scope to a specific record type. 

 

Name: Order Line Item Object Name – Formula Field Order
Key: pulsar.Order_Line_Item__c<object API name>[.<record type developer name>].formulaFieldOrder
Value: Unit_Price__c,Total_Discount__c,Amount__c

Formulas

Now to define the formulae of the fields:Field1APIName, Field2APIName, Field3APIName, ...

 

Name: Object Name – Default Value Field Order
Key: pulsar.<object API name>[.<record type developer name>].defaultValueFieldOrder
Value: Field1APIName
           Field2APIName
           Field3APIName
           .
           . 


Formulas

Defining the formulas associated with the default value or formula fields

 

Name: Order Line Item – Formula Fields – Unit Price

Key: pulsar.Order_Line_Item__c.Unit_Price__c.formula
Value: 

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