GoalDefinition

Represents a goal or a business objective that’s used as a reference. When instantiated, GoalDefinition records create GoalAssignment records that serve as goals in care plans.

Special Access Rules

In Integrated Care Management, this object represents the definition of a care plan goal in the reusable PGI library.

In Health Cloud, this object is available in API version 57.0 and later.

Supported Calls

create(), delete(), describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search(), undelete(), update(), upsert()

Fields

Category

  • Type: picklist
  • Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update
  • Description: The category that the defined goal belongs to.

Description

  • Type: textarea
  • Properties: Create, Nillable, Update
  • Description: The description of the defined goal.

LastReferencedDate

  • Type: dateTime
  • Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
  • Description: The timestamp when the current user last accessed this record indirectly, for example, through a list view or related record.

LastViewedDate

  • Type: dateTime
  • Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
  • Description: The timestamp when the current user last viewed this record or list view.

Name

  • Type: string
  • Properties: Create, Filter, Group, idLookup, Sort, Update
  • Description: The name of the goal definition record.

OwnerId

  • Type: Polymorphic lookup
  • Properties: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
  • Description: The ID of the owner of this goal definition record.

    This field is a polymorphic relationship field.

  • Relationship Name: Owner
  • Refers To:
    • Group
    • User

ParentGoalId

  • Type: reference
  • Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
  • Description: The ID of the parent record.

    This field is a relationship field.

    In Health Cloud, this field is not used in Integrated Care Management.

  • Relationship Name: ParentGoal
  • Relationship Type: Lookup
  • Refers To: GoalDefinition

Status

  • Type: picklist
  • Properties: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update
  • Description: The status of the goal defintion.
  • Default value: Active
  • Possible values:
    • Active
    • Inactive

Type

  • Type: picklist
  • Properties: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update
  • Description: Specifies the type of the defined goal.
  • Default value: Individual
  • Possible values:
    • Individual—Intermediate Goal
    • Strategic—Top Goal

UsageType

  • Type: picklist
  • Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update
  • Description: Specifies the usage type of the defined goal.

    In Health Cloud, this field is not used in Integrated Care Management.

Associated Objects

This object has the following associated objects. If the API version isn’t specified, they’re available in the same API versions as this object. Otherwise, they’re available in the specified API version and later.

GoalDefinitionFeed
Feed tracking is available for the object.
GoalDefinitionHistory
History is available for tracked fields of the object.
GoalDefinitionShare
Sharing is available for the object.