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Objects are the largest buckets you will work with. They are the type of thing you are looking at. Each object is comprised of its field definitions and records.
Examples: Account, Contact, Course, Course Offering, Asset, Inventory Event, Employee, etc.
Records are individual examples of objects, such as a person, course, or asset. Each record is a row of field data within an object. Most records will have a record page that is customized to different use cases so that you can see the data organized for your use. You can also interact with a record in different ways to make notes about or edit the information that is there. Generally, anything that is a blue link is an individual record of some object.
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