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Salesforce.com customization handbook

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Salesforce.com customization handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Salesforce.com Customization Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Tracking the history


If a record is accessible by many users, then it's a tedious job to track and maintain the field history. For example, the amount field in opportunity is very important, and an organization will want to keep track of the users that change the amount value. A simple solution is to enable the field-history-tracking option for those objects. You can maintain a history of the changes made to the fields in the records of the objects in Salesforce for custom objects and the following standard objects as well:

  • Accounts

  • Cases

  • Contacts

  • Entitlements

  • Service contracts

  • Contract line items

  • Contracts

  • Leads

  • Opportunities

  • Articles

  • Solutions

Here, we will enable the field-history-tracking option for the Event Registration object. To enable this, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Setup | Build | Create | Objects.

  2. Click on Edit in front of the Event Registration object and check the Track Field History checkbox as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Click on Save.

    Note

    You have to do this only for a custom...