How to Import Mass Custom fields from External Salesforce Orgs?

Mass importing custom fields from external Salesforce orgs is a common requirement during migrations, implementations, and org setup. But if you’ve ever tried doing this manually, you already know how quickly it becomes a bottleneck.

Recreating custom fields one by one across multiple objects involves repetitive steps, careful configuration, and constant validation. When the requirement scales to dozens or hundreds of fields, the process becomes time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to manage efficiently.

Salesforce does not provide a native, admin-friendly way to import custom fields in bulk from external orgs, which makes the challenge even more frustrating.

This is where BOFC App comes in. BOFC enables you to mass import custom fields from external Salesforce orgs and create them in minutes. With its bulk-driven approach, you can eliminate manual effort, maintain consistency, and significantly speed up your Salesforce development process.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to import and create custom fields in bulk from external Salesforce orgs using BOFC, step by step.

Why Choose BOFC?

1. Create fields for Multiple objects at the same time.
2. Import Custom Fields for any kind of object from External Salesforce org
3. Supports CSV, XLS, and XLSX Format- Drag Drop a CSV or XLS or XLSX files which contains a list of new fields to be created.
4. Assign FLS for multiple profiles & multiple fields in single Click
5. Assign newly created fields to multiple layouts
6. Error And Validation Support- Application effectively guides a user in field creation and provide error description.
7. Support Multi field type- You can add multiple types of fields at the same time in a single go.
8. Restricts Identical fields- App will restrict a user to create duplicate fields which already exists
9. Option to choose which fields need to be created from the list of fields.
10. Columns are enabled or disabled depending upon field type.

Steps to Import mass custom fields from external Salesforce Org:

1. Goto BOFC Application and open BOFC Field Creation page

2. Select single or multiple objects (user can select any kind of object standard or custom or both)

3. Select Profile (single or multiple) to assign field permissions and layout (single or multiple) to add newly created fields to page-layouts

4. User can add multiple Fields in three ways:

• Import From Other Salesforce org
• Add New Rows
• Import using XLS

5. Now Click on “Import from Other Org” and it will display a popup to choose the external org.

Now click on “Manage Org details” in above image and it will display below screen. Click on “New Environment” button to add a details for external Salesforce org.

Add details for new environment and Save it (Click ? infront of each field for any help)

Once details are added and saved, then close this “Manage Environment” popup.

6. Select the Source org which is added in Step 5 and enter the API name of object from which custom fields needs to be imported. Now Click on “Import Custom Fields from Source Org”

Once action in step 6 is completed, the field creation screen will look like below:

Above image has some features (each number has its description as below):

1. Select rows which needs to be created as new fields in salesforce
2. User can modify field type (if required).
3. User can choose Object name (same or different) on all rows.
4. Click “Create New Fields” button to create fields in salesforce
5. Click “Delete Rows” to delete any unwanted rows.
6. Pagination – This page has a pagination if count of fields is more than 80. Each page shows 80 fields. User can use “>” or “<” or “<<” or “>>” buttons to navigate on other pages.
   Counts:

• • Max no of fields – 80 – Each page shows 80 fields
  • Total no of rows – Number of rows added in table to create new fields
  • Total no of rows (selected) – Count of rows selected to create new fields

7. Select rows & verify all the details in required columns or remove error (if any).

8. Click “Create New Fields” button to add new fields to a selected objects.

9. Once the Create action is completed, it will show “Success or Error” status message in-front of each row.

• Green means – Row created successfully as field, assigned field permissions to profiles & assigned to layouts
• Red means – Row error out with some error message