Again, new to Salesforce, trying to do good things for good people. I have inherited a custom object with a data type of 'text' and it seems to be limited to 40 characters. Is there a way to expand that field length to 255? I've brought the object down to the IDE and have added the attribute to the length, but when I try to reload it back to SF, it disappears like I never typed it. Here's what it looks like in the IDE:
Thanks!
When you enable field history tracking for an object then the changes are stored in a special history table for that particular object.
The naming convention for these objects is:
[standardObjectName]History e.g. AccountHistory, ContactHistory etc.
[customObjectName]__History e.g. Car__History, Brand__History etc.
The objects are not writable and therefore you won't be able to upsert them via apex. Check these fields out using workbench.
if you have setup ant correctly you can follow below steps
Create one package.xml and objects folder
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
<types>
<members>xyz__c</members>
<name>CustomObject</name>
</types>
<version>35.0</version>
</Package>
create a xml file inside objects folder and name it with xyz__c.object and put your xml content which you have added as question.
I assume that you have setup ant deploy in build.xml so you can run command ant deploy and it will deploy this object in your target org.
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What you have in your screen shot is a field "Name Field" for a custom object. If i remember right, it is limited to 80 characters which cannot be expanded.