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Salesforce Validation Rules

Spring 2019 Note: Pulsar now directly supports evaluating Salesforce validation rules both online and offline.

  • Supports most SFDC Salesforce formulas (see more information about formula fields)
  • Follow the pre-processing steps on the Pulsar Settings Manager tab (NOTE: this is currently a limitation of the Salesforce platform, as we cannot directly sync validation rule metadata, but first have to pre-process it).
  • Set pulsar.validation.enableSFDCValidationRules Pulsar Setting to TRUE to enable this functionality in the Pulsar mobile app
  • NOTE: If a PSL BeforeSave setting exists on an object, it will be run after all SFDC ValidationRules have run successfully on that object


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PSL Validation Rules

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Pulsar originally did not support running SFDC Salesforce validation rules, and instead offered similar functionality through logic implemented in Pulsar Settings Language (PSL).  Because PSL leverages the power of raw SQL, you can create complex validation rule logic that exceeds what Salesforce validation rules can perform.  Despite (or frankly because of) the power of PSL validation rules, we recommend that you use Salesforce validation rules if possible before bringing PSL to bear on a thorny problem.

Admins can use Pulsar Settings to implement Validation Rules validation rules and Triggers triggers for the following execution points:

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