Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › What is the relationship between Account and Contact?(Explain)

  • Sudhir

    Member
    July 5, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    It is a lookup relationship. You can create Contacts without any reference to any Account.

    The answer lies in the differences between Master-Detail and Lookup.

    But in terms of Cascade delete, it behaves like master-detail; meaning when you delete an Account, the related contacts are deleted.

    In a standard way, the OWD of Contact is Controlled by its Parent which is Account.

    So you say that: at record creation level, it behaves like a lookup; but at sharing/owd level, its Master-Detail.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by  Sudhir.
    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by  Sudhir. Reason: further info added

  • shariq

    Member
    July 5, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    thanks sudhir,
    it helps a lot.

  • Parul

    Member
    September 15, 2018 at 7:24 pm

    Contacts and Accounts have a lookup relationship but this relationship has a property called CascadeDelete that's why the contact is deleted when the parent object is deleted. Account and contact behaves as master detail logics its a standard functionality in salesforce but on UI it is a lookup relationship .

     

    Thanks

Log In to reply.

Popular Salesforce Blogs

Popular Salesforce Videos

Report

Harassment or bullying behavior
Harassment or bullying behavior
Contains mature or sensitive content
Contains misleading or false information
Mobile App Reported Contents
Contains abusive or derogatory content
Contains spam, fake content or potential malware

Block Member?

Please confirm you want to block this member.

You will no longer be able to:

  • See blocked member's posts
  • Mention this member in posts
  • Invite this member to groups
  • Message this member
  • Add this member as a connection

Please note: This action will also remove this member from your connections and send a report to the site admin. Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.

Report

You have already reported this .