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Salesforce - Output field limit
We have a use case to pull all fields from wide objects in Salesforce. I keep running into “field limit” errors: .
Does anyone have any logic or best practice for pulling in all fields from wide...
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Thank you @sriram, that’s very helpful. I would want to capture all this recursively via a pipeline, but I don’t necessarily know how many columns on any given object I have to tackle. As a bonus question 🙂, do you know of a way to determine the column count from a Salesforce object? (My Google searches keep leading me to APEX code)
Looks like Salesforce does not expose a SOQL query-like capability to determine field count for an object, besides letting users do it in programmatic way that you have come across already. To handle this limitation / situation where in we are unable to determine the number of fields non-programatically, it would best to break the pipeline to include multiple “Salesforce Read” snaps (with Output field / Output field offset specified) to ensure that the query is well within the 20,000 character count threshold.
