Field types

Salesforce provides various data types to fit your business model. Some of them are built with business logic, for example, emails have to follow a valid e-mail format, and URLs have to follow a valid URL format; an invalid value will be auto rejected by the system. For each data type, you can determine additional options to specify including Required, Unique, Case sensitive, External ID, and Default Value.

Here is a list of the Salesforce data types:

• Auto Number
• Formula
• Roll-Up Summary if an object is the parent in Master-Detail Relationship
• Hierarchical relationship--only for a User object
• Lookup Relationship
• Master-Detail Relationship
• Checkbox
• Currency
• Date
• Date/Time
• Email
• Geolocation
• Number
• Percent
• Phone
• Picklist
• Picklist (Multi-Select)
• Text
• Text Area
• Text Area (Long)
• Text Area (Rich)
• Text (Encrypted)
• URL