Salesforce administrators and developers often encounter scenarios where they need to update multiple field attributes—such as field length, label, description, help text, or other properties—across multiple fields and objects.

Performing these updates using standard Salesforce configuration tools requires opening and modifying each field individually. When the requirement spans multiple fields across standard or custom objects, this manual approach becomes time-consuming, repetitive, and prone to errors. For large Salesforce orgs, such tasks can significantly impact productivity and release timelines.

Solution

To address this challenge and reduce administrative effort, Salesforce teams can use the Bulk Object Field Creator (BOFC) AppExchange application.

BOFC enables administrators and developers to bulk update field attributes across multiple objects through a streamlined, automation-first approach—eliminating the need for repetitive manual updates.

Benefits of Using BOFC for Updating Salesforce Fields

• Supports updating both Standard and Custom Fields

• Works across Standard and Custom Objects

• Allows updating fields across multiple objects in a single operation

• Supports updating multiple field attributes simultaneously

• Enables field updates using Excel (XLS) import

• Simple, intuitive, and point-and-click user interface

• Significantly reduces time and manual effort compared to standard Salesforce processes

Outcome

By using BOFC, Salesforce teams can perform bulk field updates faster, more accurately, and at scale, allowing administrators and developers to focus on higher-value work instead of repetitive configuration tasks.

Simple Steps to Mass Update Custom Fields in Salesforce

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.

Have a look at step by step detailed video to “How to Update Bulk Fields in Salesforce Using BOFC?“

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