Often, users will create and update records in your database manually one by one, but you'll often be confronted with the fact that you would like to mass import, export, update, or delete data from your Salesforce database.
Importing and exporting data into development environments
Importing data
You can easily import data from external sources into Salesforce as long as the external source can provide you with a comma-separated values format (.csv).
Salesforce supports two main methods for importing data:
- Data Import Wizard: This is an in-browser wizard that is accessible through the Setup menu. It lets you import data in your account, contacts, leads, campaign members, solution-standard objects, and in custom objects...
