Unravel — Interactive 3D Data Modeler for Salesforce

Explore and interact with Salesforce data models and architecture in 3D

Elliott
Appitek
Published in
3 min readMay 28, 2020

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Whether you are an end-user, admin, developer or a consultant — at some point in your Salesforce life you’ve had to try and map out a data model, or try and unravel an existing Salesforce org with hundreds of objects.

Salesforce has it’s own Schema Builder — but as you may have found out it starts to look a bit like spaghetti once you reach the 10+ object mark, and when you just want to work out where everything fits it gets confusing very quickly.

At Appitek we wanted to look at data models in a whole new dimension — literally! From this idea Unravel was born.

What is Unravel?

Unravel is an interactive 3D data modeling tool for Salesforce. It takes a bunch of Salesforce objects and renders them and any relationships between them in a 3D space you can interact with!

Suddenly a tangled web can become much more manageable

You can rotate, pan, zoom around the data model, and hover over any object or relationship to find out more information.

Creating Configurations

Unravel let’s you create ‘configurations’, which are essentially a list of objects you want to look at, plus a ‘target’ object.

This target object is used by Unravel to build the data model around, and as you can see above you can change it in real-time to change your perspective.

Pick from standard, custom, and even external objects!

Once you pick the objects you want to look at, Unravel does the rest!

Your first 3D data model

It’s really easy to update configurations too, so as soon as you see an object is missing, or an object has no links to anything else, you can change things out really easily to get the view you want.

You can also ‘ghost’ objects visually, so that you can bring the focus to a specific set of objects.

Highlight the important objects and hide the rest

Get it for free!

Unravel is a completely free application, and is part of our wider range of free tools and applications aimed at making your lives that little bit easier when it comes to Salesforce.

You can install it over on the AppExchange for free here:
https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000FZLTWUA5. Our fully detailed documentation will help get you setup in no time.

If you try it out and like it, we’d love to hear your feedback on how we could make it better. We’re constantly improving and evolving our solutions based on our user feedback.

At Appitek, our aim is to help make your job easier, by creating simple but effective Salesforce applications that make you more efficient at what you do.

Appitek is a registered Salesforce ISV partner.
Salesforce and Salesforce Lightning are registered trademarks of Salesforce.com

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Elliott
Appitek
Editor for

Multidisciplinary full stack developer, with a history in product & digital design. CTO at Appitek Ltd.