How does SOSL work in Salesforce?

This SOSL query combines two search terms by using the OR logical operator—it searches for Wingo or SFDC in any field. This example returns all the sample accounts because they each have a field containing one of the words. The SOSL search results are returned in a list of lists.

How do I run SOSL in Salesforce?

Your Challenge

1. Paste the Apex code that you used to find control engineer records into the Execute Anonymous window.
2. Adapt the inline SOSL query to find the Mission Specialist record you inserted: Search contacts for Mission Control. Get the contact’s first name and last name. Use the System.
3. Execute your code.

How do you do a SOSL query?

We can search for some specified string like ‘testString’ in multiple objects at the same time. We can mention in which fields of all the sObjects,we want to search for the string specified. The SOSL query start with the keyword ‘FIND’. You can specify, which fields to return for each object mentioned in SOSL query.

Where is SOSL used?

Use SOSL when you don’t know which object or field the data resides in, and you want to:

• Retrieve data for a specific term that you know exists within a field.
• Retrieve multiple objects and fields efficiently where the objects might or might not be related to one another.

How do I test a SOSL query in Salesforce?

Step 1: Create a record that you want to return in a search result. Step 2: Create a list and assign the inserted id. Step 3: Use standard method Test. setFixedSearchResults and pass the above ID list.

Can we use SOSL in trigger?

SOSL queries are only supported in Apex classes and anonymous blocks. You cannot use a SOSL query in a trigger.

What does SOSL query return?

Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL) has the ability to search across multiple objects in one query. SOSL statements return a list of lists of sObjects, where each list contains the search results for a particular sObject type.

Can we do DML on SOSL?

SOQL queries can be used in Classes and Triggers. They are only supported in Apex Classes and Anonymous blocks. We can perform DML operations on query result. We can not perform dml operations.

How do I write a test class for SOSL in Salesforce?

How to write a test class for the SOSL Query in Salesforce

1. public class SOSLController.
2. {
3. public static void findMatchingData(String str)
4. {
5. List> searchList = [FIND :str RETURNING Account(Id, Name), Lead];
6. List accounts = ((List)searchList[0]);
7. if(accounts. size() > 0)
8. {

What is the difference between SOSL and SOQL?

SOSL & SOQL. The chart below describes the differences….Difference between SOSL and SOQL search types.

What is SOSL?

SOSL is a highly optimized way of searching records in Salesforce across multiple Objects that are specified in the query. A SOSL query returns a list of list of sObjects and it can be performed on multiple objects.