Salesforce Features

Enhanced Data Model Customization

Ultimate Flexibility to Manage Diverse Data Requirements

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  • Define your own relationships between standard Salesforce objects
  • Efficiently handle custom apps with millions of records
  • Get more flexibility to capture large amounts of text

Customers love how easily they can customize the Salesforce data model with Apex Builder. With the Spring ’07 release, you’ll get even more power to customize that model to your organization’s specific needs.

These features are available in All Editions, Except as Noted.

These features are disabled by default but can be enabled by your organization’s salesforce.com administrator.

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Feature Details

  • Lookup Relationships Between Standard Objects: Add your own parent-child relationships between standard objects—such as account, contact, opportunity, and case—to model the unique ways that your company does business.
  • Recursive Relationships on Standard Objects: Create “self”-lookup relationships to model a relationship between two records of the same object type (for example, an opportunity and its related opportunities).
  • Divisions on Custom Objects (Enterprise and Unlimited Editions Only): Working with extremely large data volumes can make it difficult to find the right information when you need it. With Spring ’07, divisions can be used in custom objects to help organize data into manageable chunks for improved accessibility and productivity.
  • More Long-Text-Area Fields per Object (Enterprise and Unlimited Editions Only): Long-text-area fields allow you to capture lengthy passages of descriptive text (up to 32,000 characters) from user entries. With Spring ’07, you can add as many as 25 long-text-area fields per object, a fivefold increase over the old limit of 5 fields.

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March 14

I would really like to be able to add these lookup relationships to other standard objects like activities.
Mathias Craig
March 14

Yes, I agree with the previous poster! We have a strong need to link Events to a custom report object we created. We also really need to be able to add lookup relationships to Activities so that we can integrate Activities with the document management program called Koral.
Ashley
June 1

I would also like to be able to have multiple lookup relationships for Activities - especially lookup capability for custom objects.