Have you met the Ghost Records of Salesforce?

This post is very old but it is long overdue. Have you seen the Ghost records in Salesforce? Whenever there is an auto-number field on an Object, it suddenly seems to have gaps in between? For e.g., if you have a auto-number set at 00001 and the next record it creates is 00004. These gaps are sometimes attributed to people who create records and delete.

Auto-number fields
Lets talk a bit about auto-number. Apart from the part that they are cool, they are also very stubborn. An auto-number...



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