Field Usage & Field Types

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8 Responses to “Field Usage & Field Types”

  1. Bikram Bhuyan September 1, 2015 at 11:42 pm #

    Hi John, You said in the video that we can have maximum 3 external ids defined for the object. However from some of the articles in the salesforce site I see they have mentioned it is 7. Could you please clarify what is the right value. Below link is one of the reference.

    https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewSolution?id=000005081

    • Bikram Bhuyan September 1, 2015 at 11:43 pm #

      Oh I see it is already answered previously. Please ignore this comment.

  2. Jennifer Wyher March 27, 2015 at 7:49 pm #

    The number of External Id limit has been raised to 7 (from 3). https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=custom_field_attributes.htm&language=en_US

    • JohnCoppedge March 27, 2015 at 8:03 pm #

      Updated thanks – was already updated in the text, added to the video.

      • Brandi Hubbard March 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm #

        It actually still says 3 in the video.

        • JohnCoppedge March 30, 2015 at 2:51 pm #

          The annotations don’t come through unless you on youtube.com – looking into this…

  3. Vidya B December 24, 2014 at 10:22 am #

    TextArea (Long) and TextArea (Rich) – now have more max chars [ Not sure you have mentioned this later !].
    https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=custom_field_types.htm&language=en_US

    Text Area (Long) Allows users to enter up to 131,072 characters that display on separate lines similar to a Description field. You can set the length of this field type to a lower limit, if desired. Any length from 256 to 131,072 characters is allowed. The default is 32,768 characters.

    Text Area (Rich) With the use of a toolbar, users can format the field content and add images and hyperlinks. The toolbar allows the user to undo, redo, bold, italicize, underline, strike-out, add a hyperlink, upload or link to an image, modify alignment, add a numbered or non-numbered list, indent, and outdent. The maximum field size is 131,072 characters, inclusive of all the formatting and HTML tags.

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