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Salesforce Create Custom Field

Tool to create a custom field on a Salesforce object using the Tooling API. Use when you need to add a new field (Text, Number, Checkbox, Date, Picklist, Lookup, etc.) to any standard or custom object without deploying metadata packages. The Tooling API provides direct field cre…

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Inputs

  • labelstring
    Required
    The display label for the field shown in the Salesforce UI.
  • scaleinteger
    Number of decimal places for Number, Currency, or Percent fields. Must be less than precision.
  • lengthinteger
    Maximum character length for Text fields. Required for Text type, max 255 characters. Not applicable for LongTextArea.
  • uniqueboolean
    If true, enforce that all values in this field are unique across all records (case-insensitive by default).
  • requiredboolean
    If true, this field must be populated when creating or editing records.
  • precisioninteger
    Total number of digits for Number, Currency, or Percent fields (including decimal places). Maximum is 18.
  • field_typestring
    Required
    The type of custom field to create. Common types: Text (string up to 255 chars), LongTextArea (larger text), Number (integer or decimal), Checkbox (boolean), Date, DateTime, Picklist (single-select dropdown), MultiselectPicklist (multi-select), Lookup (relationship to another ob…
  • restrictedboolean
    For Picklist/MultiselectPicklist fields, if true restricts values to only those defined in the picklist (no custom values allowed).
  • descriptionstring
    Optional description of the field's purpose and usage.
  • external_idboolean
    If true, marks this field as an external ID for integration purposes (allows upsert operations and improves query performance).
  • reference_tostring
    For Lookup fields, the API name of the object this field references (e.g., 'Account', 'Contact', 'CustomObject__c').
  • default_valuestring
    Default value for the field. Format depends on field type (e.g., 'true'/'false' for Checkbox, date string for Date fields).

Observable output

  • data
    Required
    Data from the action execution
  • errorstring
    Error if any occurred during the execution of the action
  • successfulboolean
    Required
    Whether or not the action execution was successful or not

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