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Create Salesforce Custom Fields with AI

Custom fields are the most common Salesforce customization. Admins create dozens per sprint, each requiring 5-7 clicks through Setup. SF Agent turns each field into a one-liner that deploys in minutes, not hours.

Manual
10-15 min per field
With SF Agent
~2 min per field

The Manual Way

  1. 1Navigate to Setup → Object Manager → select the object
  2. 2Click Fields & Relationships → New
  3. 3Choose field type (Currency, Text, Picklist, etc.)
  4. 4Set label, API name, length, precision, default value
  5. 5Configure field-level security for each profile
  6. 6Add to page layouts manually
  7. 7Test that the field appears and behaves correctly

With SF Agent

  1. 1Describe the field in plain English: type, object, constraints
  2. 2SF Agent generates the field metadata with correct API naming
  3. 3Field-level security and layout assignments are included
  4. 4Clean run → auto-deployed to your connected Salesforce org

Example

You type:

“Add a required Currency field called 'Annual Revenue' to the Account object with 2 decimal places. Make it visible to all profiles.”

SF Agent generates:
  • ✓Custom Field: Account.Annual_Revenue__c (Currency, 16.2)
  • ✓Field-Level Security: visible to all profiles
  • ✓Page Layout: added to Account Layout

Stop clicking through Setup

Describe your salesforce custom fields in plain English. SF Agent handles the rest.

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