Data Seeding
Salesforce sandbox seeding with built-in data masking
Select objects and filters from a source org, apply field-level masking rules to protect PII, and load realistic test data into a sandbox — in the right order, with relationships intact, as a resumable background job.
What you can do
- Pick objects with SOQL filters — seed exactly the slice of data you need
- Automatic PII detection flags emails, phones, addresses, and identity fields
- Masking strategies per field: hash, redact, scramble, replace, randomise in range, shift dates
- Relationship-aware loading: parents before children, with old→new ID remapping
- Dry runs to test a plan end-to-end without loading anything
- Reusable seeding plans and resumable, cancellable background runs
How it works
Build a plan
Choose objects, filters, and masking rules — the PII detector suggests fields you shouldn’t copy raw.
Dry run
Extract and transform without loading, and check the counts and masking manifest.
Seed the sandbox
Detached background job with progress you can watch, leave, and resume. The target must be a sandbox — production is refused.
Why it's different
Masking is mandatory, not a checkbox
Field-level transforms are applied before data leaves the source org, the run stores a manifest of which strategy hit which field (never the values), and the loader refuses production targets outright. Compliance by construction.
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- Give every developer sandbox realistic accounts, opportunities, and cases
- Refresh UAT with current production-shaped data — minus the real PII
- Reproduce a data-dependent bug safely
- Stand up demo environments with masked but realistic data
Data Seeding — questions
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Diff two orgs component by component — new, changed, deleted — then deploy exactly what you choose to a sandbox.
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