Apsona for Salesforce has built-in tools that can highlight data quality issues, which you can find and replace when ever the need arises. Most businesses are aware that bad data quality can be a huge drain on their productivity and profitability. If you have an active Salesforce org you will always need to update data on a regular basis. Phone numbers, email addresses or mailing addresses of contacts and leads might need updating from time to time. Such mass updating cannot be done natively in Salesforce, but can be done with Apsona.
Here is a real use case. After running a mailing campaign, a user obtains a list of mail recipients who have unsubscribed. So she needs to remove the email address from the corresponding a set of contact records and replace the field value to null. She also wants to update the “Email Opt Out” checkbox for all the mail recipients. The recipient list is a CSV file with just the email addresses that have to be removed. Contact ID’s or even a First and Last name are not available.
With Apsona, you can match such a set of data records in a CSV format against your Salesforce data, and obtain the record ID for each record, if one is available. In this case, you use the email addresses CSV file as the data source and take advantage of Apsona’s import tool. You will be able to match the CSV data records against Salesforce data in steps 1 and 2 of the import/update process. In step 3, instead of clicking the Import button, you will need to click the ‘Download match results’ link. The resulting download will contain your data (the email addresses) with an additional first (leftmost) column containing the unique record IDs of the matched records. So we already not have the ID’s with just a few clicks. Half way there already.
Now for the replace part. In the downloaded file add another column called Email (Null values) and leave the cell values blank. Use the import tool again and choose the update action. Use the Contact ID as the look up field in step 1 and map the Email (null values) columns to Email in step 2. Complete the update in step 3 and you are done.
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