If enabled by your administrator, lookups support auto-complete.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Available in: All Editions except Database.com |
Both standard lookups and enhanced lookups can display a dynamic list of matching recently used records when a lookup field is edited. This list is restricted to objects of the appropriate type and, except for lookups of users, is populated from recently used items. For example, while editing an Account lookup, you can see recently used accounts with names that match the prefix you have entered. Recently used contacts don't appear in this list.
If an admin selects Use Recently Viewed User Records for Blank and Auto-Complete Lookups on the Search Settings page, the user’s 200 most-recent records are returned and sorted in alphabetical order by first and last name. If this setting is not selected, the 200 most-recent records from across the org are returned and sorted in alphabetical order by first and last name. It also stops populating records when the 200 record limit is reached, due to search crowding.
Lookup auto-completion is subject to the following restrictions.
- You must have recently visited records of the appropriate type to populate the lookup’s auto-completion list.
- You must be editing the lookup field on a record's edit page.
Hover details are displayed only for lookup fields on object types that are included in lists of recently used records. For example, products aren’t included in lists of recently used records, so hover details aren’t displayed for a product lookup field.