What is a ‘Resource in Salesforce’?

Hi Anurag,

Just like the ‘Object’ instance, we have learned in object orient programming Language, in the same way, ‘Resource’ is defined as an object of a type which can be an image, HTML file, text data, and any type of dynamic data. There are varieties of representation formats available in order to represent a resource. Some most common are enlisted below:

• JSON
• YAML
• XML
• HTML

Hope this helps.

Hi Anurag,

Static resources or resources in salesforce allow you to upload content that you can reference in a Visualforce page, including archives (such as .zip and .jar files), images, style sheets, JavaScript, and other files. Using a static resource is preferable to uploading a file to the Documents tab because:

• You can package a collection of related files into a directory hierarchy and upload that hierarchy as a .zip or .jar archive.
• You can reference a static resource in page markup by name using the $Resource global variable instead of hard-coding document IDs.
• You can use relative paths in files in static resource archives to refer to other content within the archive.

A single static resource can be up to 5 MB in size. An organization can have up to 250 MB of static resources. Static resources apply to your organization’s quota of data storage.

Thanks.