An overview of data import and export utilities
Salesforce provides data utilities that are available for the import and export of data to and from Salesforce. There are also a wide variety of third-party tools that allow data to be imported and exported from Salesforce and use the publicly available Salesforce APIs to provide data integration.
The third-party data import and export tools are not supported by Salesforce; therefore, we will not be covering these in this book but you can find information about them on the Internet.
Looking at the available Salesforce supported facilities to import and export data, we have the following specific options:
Data Import Wizard
Individual Import Wizards:
Import Accounts/Contacts
Import Leads
Import Solutions
Import Custom Objects
Data Loader
Data Import Wizard
The Data Import Wizard opens in a full browser window and provides a unified interface that lets you import data for a number of standard Salesforce objects, including Account, Contact,...
