Salesforce admins often face the challenge of replicating complex metadata when expanding to new environments. For organizations with hundreds of custom fields and advanced configurations, manual replication becomes inefficient, time-consuming, and prone to errors.

ABC Company is a prime example. With a Salesforce org containing numerous Standard and Custom Objects, each with 300–400+ fields, the company needed to establish a new org that mirrors the existing setup. This replication required copying multiple metadata components, including:

• Custom fields on Standard Objects

• Custom Objects with all associated fields

• Validation Rules

• Page Layouts

• Record Types

The Challenge of Manual Replication

Since the existing and new Salesforce orgs are not connected, administrators would need to manually recreate every object, field, layout, and rule in the target environment. For instance, cloning a single object with 400 fields involves:

• Recreating each field individually

• Rebuilding all validation rules

• Reconfiguring page layouts

• Duplicating record types

This manual approach is inefficient, increases the risk of human error, and consumes significant resources—especially when multiple objects need replication.

Streamline Cloning with Bulk Object Field Creator (BOFC)

Bulk Object Field Creator (BOFC) provides a scalable, time-saving solution. With BOFC, administrators can Mass clone Salesforce objects either within the same org or from external Salesforce orgs in just a few clicks.

BOFC is designed to simplify cloning during:

• Org migrations and sandbox refreshes

• Expansion to new business units

• Backup and documentation initiatives

Key Benefits of BOFC for Mass Salesforce Object Cloning

• Clone Standard, Custom, and Managed Objects efficiently

• Replicate all object properties to the target org

• Bulk clone all field types: Text, Number, Lookup, Master-Detail, Formula, and more

• Preserve Field Permissions when cloning within the same org or assign new permissions for multiple profiles

• Clone Validation Rules seamlessly

• Clone Page Layouts with all components intact

• Clone Record Types along with their configurations

• Fully point-and-click UI, requiring no coding

📌 BOFC also automatically creates missing Global Picklists (Value Sets) if they are referenced in any picklist or multi-picklist field.

Few Simple Steps to Mass Clone Objects in Salesforce:

1. Open the BOFC Home > Click “Clone Object”

2. It will open below screen for BOFC Clone Object

User can clone the object from different type of source orgs:

• Can clone from “Current Salesforce Org” in which BOFC is installed
• Can clone from “External Salesforce org” (Salesforce org which are linked / non-linked to current org in which BOFC is installed)

3. Select the “Source Org” from the where you want to clone the object & Enter the API name of the object.

4. Select the type of action for target object. Do you want to:

• Create New Target Object
• Use Existing Object as Target Object

5. Let’s go with “Create New Target Object“. Next, you need to select the type of actions which need to perform?

User can choose single or multiple check boxes to select the type of actions:

• Clone All Custom Fields – (Only Primitive Fields) – This means custom fields fields which are of primitive types only like Number, Text, Picklist…etc
• Clone All Relationship Fields – This means fields are of relationship types only like Master Detail, Lookup.
• Clone All Formula Fields- This means fields which are Formula or rollup summary types.
• Clone All Validation Rules- Select this checkbox if you want to clone rules
• Clone All Layouts- Select this checkbox, if you want to clone all page-layouts

6. Let’s manage the field permissions for Target Object & its fields

Here user can select multiple profiles & can choose what type of field permission should be assigned to new fields (Read or Edit).

7. Finally we are ready with all the configuration and ready to initiate the process to clone.

8. Once this blue button is clicked, it will open a small section and have some instruction in it. Just follow the instructions.

Click on “Create” button in the Status Table against each row (one by one)

Once the “Create” buttons is clicked, it will update the status against each row and will show next steps. Check the below image with some highlighted pointers:

1. New Object Created Successfully
2. Click “View Object” to view newly created object
3. Click on create in the second row of the table one by one to create fields in the new object.

9. Click “Create” infront of each row one by one and wait for process to complete. Once all “Create” buttons are clicked, you are done with your Clone Object with all the selected actions.

10. Final Status in Green shows your actions are completed in the new/existing object.

In case, if there is any error in any type of action, then the “Error Status” section will list all the errors with their reason, so you can track those actions and fix them

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Have you started using BOFC yet? Thousands of BOFC users have been able to save time & boost productivity using our Salesforce Metadata app. Click here to install the latest version of BOFC application in your Salesforce instance & explore its complete benefits for you.

For any queries or suggestions, you can contact us at https://www.bofc.io/#contact or mail us: support@bofcapp.io. Our BOFC Expert will help you get the best out of it.

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