What is the best naming convention developers around have been using for defining Record names to maintain uniqueness that can also be searched easily :
foreg: opportunity name : Opportunity name_Account_name_unique_identifier
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How is your question relevantly different than the one you refer to ?– Samuel De RyckeJan 10, 2013 at 23:18
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1I think he might really mean record naming convention and not Object naming convention, eg, "Acme Corp - Opp 1", "Acme Corp - Opp 2", etc.– Peter KnolleJan 10, 2013 at 23:26
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@PeterKnolle Yes i was meaning to record naming convention I was just giving that as a reference to see what would be the best naming convention methodology. ( I will take the link off if that is confusing)– RaoJan 10, 2013 at 23:36
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1@rao - I think the confusion was not the link but that your question uses the words "object names" as opposed to "record names".– Peter KnolleJan 10, 2013 at 23:41
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I'd say the convention you've come up with is pretty solid, you may not even want an opportunity name, it could just be <<Accout_Name>>_Oppty_<<unique ID>> or similar.
You could also include the date in there, but that information is available in the system CreatedDate field anyway so may be redundant unless you're using text search specifically.
The only difference I would make over your convention would be to have the account name first so that they get grouped by account when sorted alphabetically—that said, if your opportunity names form a desired grouping then keep the format you have.
answered Jan 11, 2013 at 3:44
A more complete convention guidelines for APEX programming can be found at https://github.com/anupj/Apex-Code-Convention/blob/master/ApexCoding.txt
Also, this document focuses more on the SalesForce administration side, how to name about every entity. https://github.com/cfpb/salesforce-docs/blob/master/_pages/Salesforce-Naming-Conventions.md
Similar question can be found on SO at What is a good set of naming conventions to use when developing on the Force.com platform? and also contains more SalesForce users feedbacks and point of views.
