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Increase the limit of number of custom fields on Activities

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We've hit the limit of 20 custom fields on activities, which is quite limiting considering we have a number of activity record types that are used within the company.

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Ying Wang - 3 months ago

This idea was considered during the September 2020 cycle of Prioritization. The community prioritized other ideas for the upcoming releases ahead of this one, however we will continue to review this idea in future product roadmap discussions. See prioritization winners at https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/winners and learn more about Prioritization and how you can shape Salesforce products via the IdeaExchange at https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/about.

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George Olson - 2 days ago

Another one of those obvious ideas that has been open for over a decade without any actual work taking place on it. Other standard objects have a custom field limit of 800 (Unlimited edition), and yet we're limited to 100 custom fields across both Task AND Event. At least make it 100 for each, that would help a lot.

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Shane Sayer - 2 days ago

Make it happen, limit is way too low!!
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B Leahy - 15 days ago

Agree that removing formula fields from the count would go a long way to helping this issue!
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Ajay Parikh - 2 months ago

This needs to be prioritized higher.
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Mick Norman - 3 months ago

This not being prioritized is incredibly disappointing. This limit of 100 fields was, and still is, ridiculous.
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Ying Wang - 3 months ago

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Phil Mushove - 3 months ago

We heavily use Events and Tasks in our organization. Our CTI also creates tasks and so we had to create many custom fields on the Activity object and we are at a stage where we are on 100%. We basically are at a stage where the system is becoming not suitable for our needs unless if the object limit is increased even by just 50 fields

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Troy Center - 4 months ago

14 years in the idea factory, and Seti Alizadeh suggests a Formula exception that gets a response in 20 days. Nice Seti. Thanks. Troy - Seattle.
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Ying Wang - 4 months ago

Thanks for the votes from the community in September's IdeaExchange Prioritiziation. We saw a lot of interest in the idea of not counting custom formula fields towards the 100-field limit of Activity. We are currently working with the team to put this on our short-term plan.

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Sheldon Breading-Goodrich - 4 months ago

20 custom fields on activity is way to small on Activity object. Need more...
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Seti Alizadeh - 5 months ago

I would like to request that formula fields do not count against the custom field limit. We use a lot of formula fields to bring in data for visibilty from other objects and those shouldnt count against the total 100 limit - otherwise if we want to send email notifications from activity objects we cant see fields from other objects.

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Lori Chmiel - 6 months ago

We needed this 2 years ago!
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Xibing Li - 6 months ago

Always hit hard limit. Please increase now
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Ying Wang - 6 months ago

A feature based on this idea to increase the limit of custom fields that can be defined on the Activities object is included in the next cycle of IdeaExchange Prioritization from September 14 - 28. Note: formula fields will not count towards the 100-field limit of Activity. Help us determine if we should prioritize this feature over others on our product roadmap as we begin planning for Summer '21 and beyond. Click the Prioritization tab above or visit https://sfdc.co/Prioritization