| Label |
This name is used to refer to the object in a user interface page. |
| Plural Label |
The plural name of the object. If you create a tab for this object, this name is used
for the tab. |
| Gender |
If it’s appropriate for your org’s default language, specify the gender of the label.
This field appears if the org-wide default language expects gender. Your personal
language preference setting doesn’t affect whether the field appears. For
example, if the org’s default language is English and your personal language is
French, you aren’t prompted for gender when creating a custom object. |
| Starts with a vowel sound |
If it’s appropriate for your org’s default language, indicate whether “an” or “a”
precedes the label. |
| Object Name |
A unique name used to refer to the object when using the API. In managed packages,
this name prevents naming conflicts with package installations. Use only alphanumeric
characters and underscores. The name must begin with a letter and have no spaces. It can’t
end with an underscore nor have two consecutive underscores. |
| Description |
An optional description of the object. A meaningful description helps you remember
the differences between objects when you’re viewing them in a list. |
| Context-Sensitive Help Setting |
Defines the URL that displays when a user clicks
Help for this Page from the object record’s home
(overview), edit, and detail pages, list views, and related lists. This setting
doesn’t affect the Help link at the top of a page. That link always opens the Help
window.
- To display the standard Salesforce Help available for any custom object
record, select Open the standard Salesforce Help & Training
window.
- To display custom object-level help for your custom object, select
Open a window using a Visualforce page and then select
the Visualforce page to use as the target of the context-sensitive help link
from that custom object’s pages.
|
| Record Name |
The name used in page layouts, list views, related lists, and search results.
If you
select the Auto Number data type, there could be issues when inserting a high
volume of records, for example, via the API. If you anticipate a high volume of
record inserts, use the Text data type.
|
| Data Type |
The type of field (text or auto-number) for the record name. Records that have unique
IDs instead of names are auto-numbered and are always a read-only field. |
| Display Format |
For an auto-numbered record name, enter the display format. You can have up to two
sets of curly braces. |
| Starting Number |
For an auto-numbered record name, enter the number to use when creating your first
record for this custom object. |
| Allow Reports |
Makes the data in the custom object records available for reporting purposes.
To
create reports on custom objects, choose the Other Reports
report type category, unless the custom object has a relationship with a standard
object. When the custom object has a master-detail relationship with a standard
object or is a lookup object on a standard object, select the standard object for
the report type category instead.
You can still create and run reports
without selecting Allow Reports; however, the custom report
type isn’t visible.
|
| Allow Activities |
Allows users to associate tasks and scheduled calendar events related to the custom
object records. |
| Allow in Chatter Groups |
Allows users to add records of this custom object type to Chatter groups.
When
true, users with permissions can create records of
this object type using the group publisher. The created record is associated with the group
and appears in the group record list. When false,
users with permissions can use the group publisher to create records of this object type,
but the record isn’t associated with the group.
|
| Enable Divisions |
If your org has divisions enabled, select this option to enable the custom object for
divisions. A division groups records for simplified search results, list views, reports, and
other areas within Salesforce. Salesforce adds a Division field to the custom object. If the
custom object is the master in a master-detail relationship, custom objects on the detail
side also get the Division field and inherit their division from the master record. |
| Available for Customer Portal |
Makes the custom object available to all portal users.
This option is available
only if your org has a customer portal.
If you enable Digital Experiences in your org,
this option no longer appears, and all custom objects are available in your Experience Cloud
sites. If before enabling, you had a Customer Portal and custom objects without this option
selected, those objects become available in your Customer Portal.
|
| Track Field History |
Enables your org to track changes to fields on the custom object records. For example,
it tracks who changed the field value and when, what the value was before the edit, and what
it was changed to. History data is available for reporting, so users can easily create audit
trail reports when this feature is enabled. |
| Allow Sharing |
When this setting is enabled, the custom object is an Enterprise Application object. When
this setting isn’t enabled, the custom object is a Light Application object.
When this setting is enabled, you must also enable Allow
Bulk API Access and Allow Streaming API
Access.
|
| Allow Bulk API Access |
When this setting is enabled, the custom object is an Enterprise Application object. When
this setting isn’t enabled, the custom object is a Light Application object.
When this setting is enabled, you must also enable Allow Sharing
and Allow Streaming API Access.
|
| Allow Streaming API Access |
When this setting is enabled, the custom object is an Enterprise Application object. When
this setting isn’t enabled, the custom object is a Light Application object.
When this setting is enabled, you must also enable Allow Bulk API
Access and Allow Sharing.
|
| Deployment Status |
Indicates whether the custom object is visible to other users. |
| Allow Search |
To allow your users to find a custom object’s records when they search, create a
custom tab set to Default On or Default
Off. Creating a custom tab enables the custom object's
Allow Search setting.
Searchability is disabled for custom objects that haven't been searched for more
than 120 days. To enable object and field searchability, contact your admin.
|
| Add Notes & Attachments... |
Allows users to attach notes and attachments to custom object records. You can
attach external documents to any object record in much the same way that you can
add a PDF file or photo as an attachment to an email.
This option is
available only when you’re creating an object.
|
| Launch the New Custom Tab Wizard |
Starts the custom tab wizard after you save the custom object. |