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The Schema page renders your Salesforce data model as an interactive entity-relationship diagram — every object, every relationship, laid out automatically. Nothing to draw, nothing to maintain: the diagram is generated from the metadata catalog your Salesforce connection already syncs, so it reflects your org as it actually is. Open it at /erd in your workspace.

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Reading the diagram

Objects appear as tables; relationship fields draw the edges between them, following the same visual language as Salesforce Schema Builder: Edges carry cardinality markers on each end, so one-to-many relationships read at a glance.

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Display modes

Salesforce objects routinely carry dozens or hundreds of fields — showing them all makes a diagram unreadable. The toolbar offers three display modes:
  • Key fields only (default) — the record Id plus every relationship field. This is the relationship-focused view most schema questions need.
  • All fields — the full field list per object.
  • Object names only — maximum density for very large schemas.
  • Search — press ⌘K to jump to any object or run diagram commands (on the Schema page the palette is schema-aware; the global search lives on every other page).
  • Object details — click an object to open a panel with its fields, types, and related objects.
  • Jump to documentation — selecting an object shows its tagged docs in the header; one click opens them in the docs reader. Untagged objects say so — a nudge for coverage.
  • Focus related — highlight an object’s neighborhood to trace how records connect.
  • Pan and zoom — the canvas handles large schemas; fit-to-view brings everything back on screen.
  • Shareable links — the URL carries the selected view and object, so a link shows a teammate exactly what you’re looking at.

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Saved views

Big orgs need more than one map. The Views sidebar lets you save focused subsets of the schema:
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Create a view

Click New view, name it (say, Sales objects), and tick the objects it should include. A +N related shortcut pulls in every object related to your selection.
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Share it (or keep it yours)

Tick Share with my organization to make the view available to everyone; otherwise it stays private to you.
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Switch and refine

All objects is always at the top of the list. Inside a view you can show or hide individual objects, and edit or delete the view any time — deleting a shared view removes it for everyone, and you’re warned first.

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What’s included

  • The diagram respects your organization’s documentation filters: managed-package objects excluded there stay out of the diagram too (see Settings).
  • Very large orgs are bounded by a row budget; if yours exceeds it, the header shows partial data — narrowing the active space or excluding managed packages brings the diagram back under budget.
  • System audit fields (created/modified metadata) are hidden to keep the signal high.
  • With multiple Salesforce connections, the diagram covers the connections in your active space.
The Schema page is built on Liam ERD, an open-source ER diagram engine (Apache-2.0), extended by LivingContext with Salesforce relationship semantics.