Now that you have read about the concept of Object , Field and Record in salesforce. There are two paths which divert from this base concept. First One being related to the platform Infrastructure and the other being on the User management perspective. In this Article, we will be talking about salesforce in terms of it's infrastructure and what makes salesforce a truly cloud platform.
You must have heard/read multiple times a term called "Org"OR "Organization"while trying to know more about salesforce. We will show you how to understand the Org Structure in salesforce.
An Org or Organisation in salesforce means collection of various different aspects which are needed for it to function as an independent entity and exactly for this reason of independence every Salesforce Org has a unique Id assigned to it.
As and when you create your own Developer Org you will be able to view the Instance id of your Org as well as it's Unique Org Id as highlighted in the image below.
Now a salesforce Org is a child entity for salesforce Instance and all Salesforce Orgs belong to one or other salesforce instance as per the defined structure displayed in the image below. Similarly and Org consists of sub-entities like Objects, Apex classes, Triggers, workflows, approval processes, user records, application( it is collection of objects), Tabs etc...
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