The Salesforce.com user who is facilitating the synchronization between Acoustic Campaign and Salesforce.com is subject to the same custom validation rules as any other user. Often when there are custom validation rules in effect, the Acoustic Campaign integration will be unable to update or save the Salesforce.com record because of a validation rule conflict. It may be advantageous to bypass some validation rules for the integration user only. To put this into perspective, the Acoustic Campaign integration may be attempting to provide the Acoustic Campaign RecipientID during the initial sync with Salesforce.com or trying to update or opt-out the Salesforce.com record. A validation rule could prevent these updates from occurring if the record is in a state that would generate a validation rule error if re-saved

The following sample code is an example of a custom validation rule taken from Salesforce's online help and then altered slightly so that it will not be enforced when a specific User ID is updating the record. By adding the last line of code, the validation rule will not be triggered if Salesforce.com user 00540000000XXXX is attempting to save the Lead record.

OR(
LEN(Country) = 1,
NOT(
CONTAINS(
"AF:AX:AL:DZ:AS:AD:AO:AI:AQ:AG:AR:AM:" &
"AW:AU:AZ:BS:BH:BD:BB:BY:BE:BZ:BJ:BM:BT:BO:" &
"BA:BW:BV:BR:IO:BN:BG:BF:BI:KH:CM:CA:CV:KY:" &
"CF:TD:CL:CN:CX:CC:CO:KM:CG:CD:CK:CR:CI:HR:" &
"CU:CY:CZ:DK:DJ:DM:DO:EC:EG:SV:GQ:ER:EE:ET:FK:" &
"FO:FJ:FI:FR:GF:PF:TF:GA:GM:GE:DE:GH:GI:GR:GL:" &
"GD:GP:GU:GT:GG:GN:GW:GY:HT:HM:VA:HN:HK:HU:" &
"IS:IN:ID:IR:IQ:IE:IM:IL:IT:JM:JP:JE:JO:KZ:KE:KI:" &
"KP:KR:KW:KG:LA:LV:LB:LS:LR:LY:LI:LT:LU:MO:MK:" &
"MG:MW:MY:MV:ML:MT:MH:MQ:MR:MU:YT:MX:FM:MD:MC:" &
"MC:MN:ME:MS:MA:MZ:MM:MA:NR:NP:NL:AN:NC:NZ:NI:" &
"NE:NG:NU:NF:MP:NO:OM:PK:PW:PS:PA:PG:PY:PE:PH:" &
"PN:PL:PT:PR:QA:RE:RO:RU:RW:SH:KN:LC:PM:VC:WS:" &
"SM:ST:SA:SN:RS:SC:SL:SG:SK:SI:SB:SO:ZA:GS:ES:" &
"LK:SD:SR:SJ:SZ:SE:CH:SY:TW:TJ:TZ:TH:TL:TG:TK:" &
"TO:TT:TN:TR:TM:TC:TV:UG:UA:AE:GB:US:UM:UY:UZ:" &
"VU:VE:VN:VG:VI:WF:EH:YE:ZM:ZW",
Country)))
&& (NOT($User.Id="00540000000XXXX"))