How to Mass “Create Custom Fields” for multiple objects in Salesforce?

Mass Create Custom Fields for multiple objects

Idea
During an application development or Org to Org migration, user needs to create custom fields of different data types in various standard & custom objects. In order to create single field, user needs to follow a 5-step process which generally takes around 1 min

If user has to create 200-500 fields, it can take hours of hours to handle this time-consuming & a monotonous job for Salesforce developers & admins.
Solution:

Bulk Object Field Creator (BOFC) is a native force.com application designed to help overcome the above situation. BOFC application helps in Bulk Field Creation in Salesforce and can create any number of custom fields of different field types, in one single go. BOFC can easily create multiple fields for multiple objects by:

  • Importing Custom Fields of Standard/Custom Object directly from External Salesforce Org
  • Importing CSV or XLS or XLSX file of fields in Salesforce
  • Manually adding fields in bulk for different field types

It can also help you in managing Salesforce org configuration using just a few clicks. This would help users save time, reduce manual effort and increase productivity. BOFC application has a simple user interface which is extremely self-explanatory and easy to use.

How BOFC helps for Bulk Field Creation Salesforce?:

  • Create fields for Multiple objects at the same time
  • Drag Drop a CSV, XLS or XLSX files to import fields
  • import custom fields from External salesforce org
  • Assign field permission for multiple profiles / permission sets
  • Assign newly created fields to multiple layouts
  • Create multiple types of fields at the same time in a single go.
  • Create the Global Picklist automatically when pick list type fields are imported from External Org
Note:

To avail this feature, kindly make sure you have installed the latest version of the application. You can upgrade your package using either of two ways:

  1. In Salesforce, go to “BOFC Home > Settings > App Version > Click to Upgrade” — or —
  2. Refer the below button to quickly upgrade your package to the latest version and explore its complete benefits:

How to Mass “Create Custom Fields” for multiple objects in single click in Salesforce?

Steps to Bulk Create Fields in Salesforce For Multiple Objects:

1. Click App Launcher & open BOFC “Bulk Field Creation” page

Create Multiple Fields

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

Create Multiple Fields in salesforce

3. User can select single or multiple (Profiles or Permission Sets or both) to assign field permissions and can select single or multiple layouts to assign newly created fields

 

Bulk Field Creation

Profile & Layout selection

Permission-Sets selection

Permission-Sets selection

4. User can add rows of multiple fields in three ways. Let’s review all the above ways one by one:

Option 1: Manually Add New Rows – User can add any number of rows of any field type by using this option.

Manually Add New Rows

Option 2: Import fields from External Salesforce org– User can import custom fields of any kind of object (Standard/Custom/Managed) from any external Salesforce org (Production/Sandbox/Developer)

Import fields from External Salesforce org

    It will open the below popup to select source org information

popup to select source org information

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

    1. Select the Source Org from where the fields needs to be imported
    2. Enter the API name of the Source Object & Click Fetch Custom Fields
    3. Select single or multiple custom fields
    4. If any selected fields of type picklist is referencing any global picklist, then BOFC can import global picklist along with Field.
    5. Click this button to import selected fields from Source Org.

Option 3: Import using CSV / XLS: In this option, user can import set of fields using CSV or XLS sheet. The sheet should in the proper format and can easily import any number of fields (Refer: Sample Template)

Import using CSV / XLS

5. Once rows are added in the table using any of the above discussed options, the field creation screen will look like below:

Create Multiple Fields Salesforce

  • 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.
    7. 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

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

BOFC Create Multiple Fields

Click “Create New Fields” button to add newly fields to a selected objects. Once this button is clicked, it will show a popup for all the actions and their status.

Create New Fields

7. Also, it will show “Success or Error” status message in-front of each row.

Bulk Create Multiple Fields

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

Have a look at step by step detailed video to “Create Bulk Custom Fields in Salesforce using BOFC App”

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