Bypasses

We reference "bypasses" in a number of these conventions.

Bypasses are administrator-defined checkboxes that allow you to massively deactivate automations and validation rules with a simple click. They avoid that awkward feeling when you realize that you need to turn them off one by one so you can do that huge data update operation you're planning.

If your validation rules bypasses look like this, this is bad:
$Profile.id <> '00eo0000000KXdC' && somefield__c = 'greatvalue'rr

The most maintainable way to create a bypass is to create a hierarchical custom setting to store all the bypass values that you will use. This means that the custom setting should be named "Bypasses", and contain one field per bypass type that you want to do.

Bypasses are administrator-defined checkboxes that allow you to massively deactivate automations and validation rules with a simple click. They avoid that awkward feeling when you realize that you need to turn them off one by one so you can do that huge data update operation you're planning.