I have a standard Account filed which is required and I need to make it to be not required in particular layout.
Could you please advise how this can be achieved?
Regards,
Dilyan
[SalesForce] How to make a standard field to not be required
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With the new Winter 17 release existing custom picklist fields can now be marked as required at a field level.
To create or modify custom picklists:
Picklist on an object — Use the fields area of the object.
Global picklist — From Setup, enter picklist in the Quick Find box, then select > Picklists.
Taken from the release notes for Winter 17.
There is no * in the SOQL query so you will have to specify the fields you want to pull.
I am going to ignore your need for the Company to be the same for now until you clarify your question.
to get the data from converted leads you can do the following:
Note You should ALWAYS limit your query by using selective filters as you cannot return more than 50K rows in a transaction now should you need to.
Set<ID> SetOdIds = New Set<ID>();
//Populate the set using results from another query, trigger, or something that identifies the contact IDs you are looking for. Maybe `[Select Id From Contact Where Company = 'test Company'`
[Select ConvertedContact.LastName, ConvertedContact.firstName From Lead Where isConverted = true and convertedcontactid IN :setOfIds]
You should read up and be familiar with the Force.com SOQL and SOSL Reference
Best Answer
Standard required fields are required. You can't make them optional. I have heard of people making Visualforce pages to set those fields to some value "behind the scenes", but they're still populated with some value. That's a lot of code to write just to add the convenience of a single field not being required.