Custom Metametadata with Packagable Records

A article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions to cause one or more processors to provide custom metadata in a multi-tenant database environment in which hardware and software of the multi-tenant database system is shared by one or more organizations, each having one or more corresponding users, the instructions to:

• trigger, in response to a trigger event determined by a standard platform interface, activating procedural code to query metadata provided by an organization through a metadata interface provided by a platform developer, wherein the standard platform interface is provided by a platform developer;
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• write to data owned by the organization with the procedural code, in response to results of the query.

A system comprising one or more computing devices to provide a multi-tenant database environment in which hardware and software of the multi-tenant database system is shared by one or more organizations, each having one or more corresponding users, the system to trigger, in response to a trigger event determined by a standard platform interface, activating procedural code to query metadata provided by an organization through a metadata interface provided by a platform developer, wherein the standard platform interface is provided by a platform developer, and to write to data owned by the organization with the procedural code, in response to results of the query.