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Make Custom Fields Visible

When a custom field is created, it’s not visible by default to all profiles in the Salesforce organization. Users with different roles won’t be able to see the newly created custom field.

You need to modify the Field-Level Security settings after the custom field is created to allow other Salesforce profiles to see it. Stacksync enables Custom Field Visibility for the following profiles:

  • System Administrator
  • Standard User

How to enable a custom field for other profiles:

  1. Click on Setup
    Salesforce gear menu open showing the "Setup", "Service Setup" and "Developer Console" options.

  2. Go to Object Manager

    Salesforce Setup with the "Object Manager" tab selected.

  3. Select the related Object

Salesforce Object Manager list showing the "Account" object.
  1. Select Fields & Relationships
Salesforce Account object menu with "Details", "Fields & Relationships" and "Page Layouts" options.
  1. Select the Custom Field
Salesforce custom field "Number of Locations" with API name "NumberofLocations__c" and type "Number(3, 0)".
  1. Select Field-Level Security and make it visible to the user groups you want
Salesforce custom field toolbar with "Edit", "Set Field-Level Security", "View Field Accessibility" and "Where is this used?" buttons.

To make the custom Field visible in a layout:

  1. Click on Setup
    Salesforce gear menu open showing the "Setup", "Service Setup" and "Developer Console" options.
  2. Go to Object Manager
    Salesforce Setup with the "Object Manager" tab selected.
  3. Select the related Object
    Salesforce Object Manager list showing the "Account" object.
  4. Go to the Page Layout section
    Salesforce Account object menu with "Details", "Fields & Relationships" and "Page Layouts" options.
  5. Select and edit the layout where you want to include the custom field you just created.
    Salesforce Account "Page Layouts" list including "Account Layout" and Marketing, Sales and Support layouts.