Relationships

Map how your Salesforce objects connect on a visual canvas.

The relationships canvas is a curated, Schema-Builder-style view of how your objects connect. It's designed to stay readable no matter how large your org is. Open it from the Relationships page.

Building a view

Pick objects from the left panel to place them on the canvas. Only the relationships among the selected objects are drawn, so the diagram never becomes an unreadable tangle.

Start small, then expand

Begin with the one or two objects you care about, then pull in their neighbors as you go. The canvas only draws relationships between objects you've actually placed, so you control how much detail appears.

System/noise objects (like User) and audit relationships are hidden by default. Toggle them on when you need to see them.

Working with the canvas

Expand a node's neighbors

Click the + on a node to pull in its related objects.

Arrange the layout

Drag nodes to position them however reads best for you.

Get more room

Go fullscreen when the view gets busy and you need more space.

Edge colors

Edges are colored by relationship type so you can tell at a glance how two objects are connected:

Edge typeRelationship
LookupA standard lookup reference
Master-detailA master-detail relationship
HierarchyA hierarchy relationship
Was this page helpful?