Manage Custom Objects

Note Your administrator may have created a tab without any help. If you need help to understand how a tab for a custom object works, contact your administrator.

Your object management settings list the custom objects that are defined for your organization. From this list, you can:

• Define a custom object.
• Display detailed information about a custom object.

  Optional features you can customize include enabling search and reports, tracking activities, tracking field history, and making the object available for the Salesforce Customer Portal.

• To update the custom object definition, click Edit and update the desired fields.
  

  Note The Allow Reports, Allow Activities, and Allow Search fields aren’t locked in Managed - Released and can be changed by the developer in future releases of a managed package.
• To delete a custom object, click Del.
• To truncate a custom object, click Truncate.
• To view deleted custom objects, click the Deleted Objects link. The total number of deleted custom objects for your organization is listed in parentheses.

The detail page of the custom object provides information about various characteristics of the object, including standard fields, custom fields, field history tracking, relationships, custom links, search layouts, page layouts, and object limits. You can:

• Click individual items to display additional detail.
• To delete a custom field, click Del next to its name in the Custom Fields & Relationships section.
• Click More at the bottom of the page or View More below a related list to display more items.
• Click New to directly add new items.

Note The object limit percentages are truncated, not rounded. For example, if your org uses 95.55% of the limit for a particular customization, the object limit displays 95%.

• Deployment Status for Custom Objects and External Objects
  Use the Deployment Status setting in the object definition to control when users can see and use the object and its associated custom tab, related lists, and reports.
• Create a Custom Object
  Track and store data that’s unique to your organization. Follow different steps, depending on which Salesforce experience you’re using.
• Modify Custom Objects
  Customize the user interface for your custom objects.
• Custom Object Standard Fields
  When you create a custom object, these default fields are automatically assigned to the object.
• Delete Custom Objects
  When you delete a custom object, Salesforce doesn’t add it to the Recycle Bin. Instead, deleted objects appear in the Deleted Objects list for 15 days. During this time, the object and its data are soft deleted, meaning you can restore or permanently erase (hard delete) the object and its data. After 15 days, the object and its data are automatically hard deleted.
• Manage Deleted Custom Objects
  Deleted custom objects appear in the Deleted Objects list for 15 days. During this time, you can choose to permanently delete the object and its data, or you can undelete them. If you undelete a custom object, some manual cleanup can be required to restore list views and other customizations that use the object.
• Considerations for Truncating Custom Objects
  It’s important to understand what truncating an object does before you use it to remove records.
• Truncate Custom Objects
  Truncating custom objects allows you to delete all of the object’s records permanently, but preserve the empty object and its metadata.