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Rafael Enriqu Mella García (The DREAM Project) asked in #Data Management
Oct 14, 2016, 7:21 PM

Anyone know what this means? "DO NOT DELETE - This field is updated by a workflow field update...."

This was a note left by someone on a custom field. Does anyone have any good resources for learning how to create a workflow field update? I've never worked with this Salesforce feature before. Specifically, this field calculates a percentage based on exam responses associated with the enrollment record for a student.
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  1. Nathan Graber (Accenture)
    Oct 14, 2016, 7:25 PM
    The Salesforce help and training is a great resource. Here is the article about Field Update Actions.

     

    Essentially, a Field Update is one of several actions that can happen when a workflow rule is evaluated to True. Workflow Rules are evaluated every time you create and/or save a record, and can kick off automation such as Field Update, Email Alerts, and other things.

     

    If you go in to Setup and look at your existing Field Updates, you should find one that is updating this field, assuming the note you found is true. Then, you can see the Workflow Rule that is triggering the update, and find the details of that rule.
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