🚀 How to Lock Records in Salesforce - A Step-by-Step Guide 🔐
Ever wondered how to secure your Salesforce records post-lifecycle? 🤔
In Salesforce, sometimes you would want to lock records in Salesforce so that they can no longer be edited or deleted. When a record has reached the end of its lifecycle, nobody should be allowed to modify the record any longer. ❌
For example, once an opportunity is closed (won or lost), it just needs to live in the system without being touched. Same can be for “Cases” or records sitting in your custom objects. Or maybe once a record has been interfaced to a backend system, you would want to lock the record so that it can no longer be modified in Salesforce.
Locking records will safeguard your data's integrity. 💪
Traditionally Salesforce professionals have used different options to meet this requirement & each of these options have its own pros and cons. They include:
1. Using Record Type & Page Layouts
2. Using Record Ownership
3. Using Apex Trigger
4. Using Validation Rule
5. Using Custom Visualforce Page
But none of these options are elegant and fool-proof.
In this guide, we will explore a better option (in my opinion), where we will actually “lock” the record using a couple of declarative features of Salesforce. Once locked the end users will see an error (please refer to the screenshot attached below) when they try to edit the record. 👌
The complete step-by-step guide with screenshots is available at URL https://www.asagarwal.com/how-to-lock-records-in-salesforce/
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