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While creating a new Custom Object, I was setting the Name field to Auto-Number, and saw this warning which I don't recall seeing in the past: Warning: If you plan to insert a high volume of records ...
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I have an auto-number field on a custom object in Salesforce, with the starting number explicitly set to 1. This works as expected in my development org, where records begin numbering from 1. However, ...
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I have an opportunity field called Order # that the user enters it in this format 24-022. I'd like to use this Order # and add a -1, -2, -3 etc. to the end (example 24-022-1) and this field will be ...
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I have a strange issue with auto number skipping numbers. After the creation of the auto number field, and checking the 'Generate Auto Number for existing records' checkbox I've got inconsistent ...
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We are using Salesforce Maps to schedule Visits to Retail Stores. We've noticed that the Visit records that are created are using an Auto Number as the Name, giving values such as "00000564"...
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I got to explain well the scenario. I have a custom obj with 10 different Records Types. I want the name field (which at the moment is an autonumumber with the following format {YYYY}{MM}{DD}{0}) to ...
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We are creating a custom autonumber in the custom invoice object. For this, we used the Before insert event in the apex trigger. So the user will generate bulk invoices based on the term for all the ...
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I just hit a very strange issue when trying to deploy my sources today. We have an autonumber field on Lead (format: {YYYY}-{0000000000}; starting number: 1000), that already exists in my sandbox. But ...
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In our managed package, we have a custom object where the Name field is an auto number We're using a flow to create records of that custom object In our trial source org, somebody tested that flow and ...
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We have decided we want all Leads, Opportunities, Quotes and a few custom objects to inherit the same autonumber so that it is easy to see related objects just by the number. Leads should get an LD-...
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I'm migrating Quote record of one salesforce instance to another Salesforce instance. The Quote number in source org is in Q-{MM}{YY}-{0000} format. I have changed the quote format in my target ...
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I was trying to change the field type on the lead object to an auto-number but it doesn't seem I can as there is no option to do so - does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks
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I am getting an error when trying to change a custom object's unique field from a Name to Auto #. I made sure that all the current Names are #'s.
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I can't figure out why use autonumber as External ID. There is some case when must be used an auto number as ExternalID? Thanks
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I need to use an Auto Number field to set the value of the Name field to a composite value of AUTO_NUMBER - NAME - DOB I've got an Auto_Number__c field and a before insert trigger which gets the max ...
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