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Karimov CeyhunKarimov Ceyhun 

Custom fields in custom settings

Hi,

 

is there any way to create custom fields of type 'long text' in custom settings? I coulnt see long text type while creating custom fields in custom settings. This seems very weird.

 

Thanks

 

Ceyhun Karimov

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Shashikant SharmaShashikant Sharma

No you can not add a log text in custom setting field and there is a reason also, custom settings are primarily used to save configurations for any application. Now long text as a configuration is impracticle. But now as there must me some need of yours thats why you are asking. So I would suggest you to create a custom object, use it as Custom Setting. Even when salesforce did not introduced custom setting we used a custom object as to keep org configurations. So I hope your case can also be solved with custom object.

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Shashikant SharmaShashikant Sharma

No you can not add a log text in custom setting field and there is a reason also, custom settings are primarily used to save configurations for any application. Now long text as a configuration is impracticle. But now as there must me some need of yours thats why you are asking. So I would suggest you to create a custom object, use it as Custom Setting. Even when salesforce did not introduced custom setting we used a custom object as to keep org configurations. So I hope your case can also be solved with custom object.

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Karimov CeyhunKarimov Ceyhun

Thanks for the reply Sharma,

 

Salesforce forces developers to use custom setings and not to use custom objects, for example i save activation key code which can be quite very long. But nevertheles, thank you very much