Today we tried to do some prep type stuff in Salesforce Recipes and honestly..........
Similarities
- Salesforce recipes' interface is quite similar to Tableau Prep, you can make changes in steps and formulas are used to join fields together (concatenate).
- The actual formula's are very similar as well, although you may have to do a little bit of hunting to find the function. When using Salesforce Recipe, make sure to click the help hyperlink (I did not see it and spent ages trying to figure things out)
Differences
- When creating formula's Recipes requires you to actively state what type of data is going to be in the column (text, date, etc) whereas in Prep, that's automatically done for you based on the data that was going in to the formula
- You can't directly add fields to each other in Recipes, you have to use the concat formula
- There's no how to guide on the side in Recipe's like there is in Prep so you have to go through the help document or google the formula
Personally, I'm leaning towards
I'm just scratching the surface with Salesforce Recipes so i'll be updating this blog as I go along.