How to update mass custom fields in Salesforce?

Managing and mass update custom fields in Salesforce becomes increasingly challenging as Salesforce orgs continue to grow. Salesforce administrators and developers often need to update field labels, descriptions, help text, field length, API names, and other field properties across multiple objects.

Using standard Salesforce setup for these updates requires opening every field individually and making changes one by one. When multiple fields across standard and custom objects need updates, the process quickly becomes repetitive, time-consuming, and difficult to manage efficiently.

In large Salesforce environments, manual field updates can also increase the risk of configuration inconsistencies, deployment delays, and human errors. As a result, Salesforce teams spend significant time handling repetitive administrative tasks instead of focusing on higher-value Salesforce operations.

Solution

To simplify this process, Salesforce teams can use the BOFC application.

BOFC helps administrators and developers mass update custom fields in Salesforce through a centralized and automation-driven interface. Instead of modifying fields manually, users can update multiple field attributes across multiple objects in just a few clicks.

The application supports both direct table-based updates and Excel (XLS/XLSX) driven updates, making large-scale field management faster and easier.

Guide to Update Custom Fields in Salesforce with BOFC

1. Open the BOFC Home > Click “Bulk Field Updation“

2. It will open below screen for BOFC Update Fields.

User can Update fields in two different methods.

• 1st method: Display all the fields in table, then modify & Update in Salesforce
• 2nd method: Download all the fields in XLS, then Modify in XLS, upload and Update in Salesforce

Once this blue button is clicked, it will displays all the custom fields in tabular format as shown below.

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

1. User can filter fields by object or field names
2. 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
3. User can select fields by checking check-boxes in-front of each row
4. Each row columns are enabled or disabled depending upon field type. User can update the field attributes which are editable (scroll the tables and it will show more columns)
5. Total Field Count on page & Selected field count (for update)
6. Button “Update Fields” – On clicking this button, it will update all the selected fields for object.

Select the Fields which you want update by selecting checkbox infront of each row.

Once fields are selected, Click “Update Fields” button to Update fields for an object. Once the Update action is completed, it will show “Success or Error” status message in-front of each row (check below image for reference)

2nd Method = “Download as XLS > Modify > Upload > Update”

If user selects the 2nd method to download the sheet, it will display below UI for the user. This image is labeled with some number and below are there descriptions:

1. Select single or multiple objects
2. Select Method to Update as “Download as XLS”
3. Click on Download as xls and wait for couple of seconds for process to complete (as shown in below image)

1. User can click on [Download] link as per above screenshot to download all custom fields in XLS
2. Open excel and modify your field details and save file as xls or xlsx
3. Open your BOFC Update Field page and drag or select your excel file

Drag file on page and it displays all the fields in tabular format as displayed below:

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

1. User can filter fields by object or field names
2. 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
3. User can select fields by checking check-boxes in-front of each row
4. Each row columns are enabled or disabled depending upon field type. User can update the field attributes which are editable (scroll the tables and it will show more columns)
5. Total Field Count on page & Selected field count (for update)
6. Button “Update Fields” – On clicking this button, it will update all the selected fields for object.

Select the Fields which you want update by selecting checkbox infront of each row.

Once fields are selected, Click “Update Fields” button to Update fields for an object. Once the Update action is completed, it will show “Success or Error” status message in-front of each row.

All the field attributes like (label, api name, description, help text, etc) can be updated for multiple fields for multiple Objects in few clicks.