Adding Advanced Fields

In this section, let’s revisit the custom field wizard to help us create fields with more sophisticated functionality: picklists, dependent picklists, and fields that leverage custom formulas. We’ll see how the platform’s user interface helps guide us through the setup of these more complicated fields.

Introducing Picklists

When viewing the preview of what we wanted our Positions page to ultimately look like, there were several fields that were specified with drop-down lists. In Force Platform terms, these fields are called picklists, and they consist of several predefined options from which a user can select.

Picklists come in two flavors: a standard picklist, in which a user can select only one option, and a multi-select ...

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