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Creating Custom Fields in Salesforce

How to create Custom Fields?

To create custom fields, you have to create custom objects first. Now, you are going to build custom fields in Student objects.

  • Father’s name
  • DOB
  • Phone
  • Address
  • Fee paid

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Steps to create Custom Fields

Step 1: To create a field in a custom object, go to the Setup menu
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Step 2: Go to: Build > Create > Objects

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Step 3: Now, select the object in which you want to create custom fields

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Step 4: After that, go to the Custom Fields & Relationships section and select New

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Step 5: Now, you need to create the Father’s Name field. To create this field, first, you have to select the data type and then click on the Next

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Step 6: Now, fill in all the details in the open tab and again click on Next

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Step 7: After that, in the Filed-Level Security for Profile field, select Visibly

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Step 8: Then, you have to click on Save & New if you want to create all the remaining custom fields
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Step 9: Once you create all the custom fields, it will appear like below:

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Rahul is a seasoned Salesforce Certified administrator and app builder with 10+ years of experience in many Salesforce technologies, such as Salesforce CRM and business process automation. In his free time, he likes to write and read about the latest technologies.