Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › What is metadata in Salesforce? Tagged: Metadata, Metadata API in Salesforce, Metadata in Salesforce, Metadata WSDL, MetadataService, Object Metadata Salesforce® Discussions What is metadata in Salesforce? Posted by Anurag algoworks on June 27, 2018 at 1:57 PM What is metadata in Salesforce? Parul replied 7 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies MetadataMetadata API in SalesforceMetadata in SalesforceMetadata WSDLMetadataServiceObject Metadata 2 Replies Sanjana Member June 28, 2018 at 12:20 PM Hello Anurag Metadata is the data that is used to represent and give information about other data. It leads us to the detailed data. Thank You [adinserter block='9'] Parul Member September 18, 2018 at 6:54 AM Hi, Metadata is basically “data that describes other data”. For example, in Salesforce you can query data like this: SELECT FirstName FROM Contact WHERE FirstName=’Mike’ Thanks Log In to reply. Public All Members My Connections Only Me PublicAll MembersMy ConnectionsOnly Me Public All Members My Connections Only Me