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Tracking Field History for Standard Objects
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Modifying any of these fields adds a new entry to the History related list. All entries include the date, time, nature of the change, and
who made the change. Note that not all field types are available for history tracking. Certain changes, such as case escalations, are always
tracked.
Considerations
• Changes to fields with more than 255 characters are tracked as edited, and their old and new values are not recorded.
• Tracked field values are not automatically translated; they display in the language in which they were made. For example, if a field
is changed from Green to Verde , Verde is displayed no matter what a user’s language is, unless the field value has been
translated into other languages via the Translation Workbench. This also applies to record types and picklist values.
• Changes to custom field labels that have been translated via the Translation Workbench are shown in the locale of the user viewing
the History related list. For example, if a custom field label is Red and translated into Spanish as Rojo , then a user with a Spanish
locale will see the custom field label as Rojo . Otherwise, the user will see the custom field label as Red .
• Changes to date fields, number fields, and standard fields are shown in the locale of the user viewing the History related list. For
example, a date change to August, 5, 2012 shows as 8/5/2012 for a user with the English (United States) locale, and as
5/8/2012 for a user with the English (United Kingdom) locale.
Tracking Field History for Standard Objects
If you use both business accounts and person accounts, review the following before enabling
account field history tracking:
• Field history tracking for accounts affects both business accounts and person accounts.
• Enabling field history tracking on person accounts does not enable field history tracking on
personal contacts.
To set up field history tracking:
1. From Setup, click Customize.
2. Select the object you want to configure.
3. Click Fields > Set History Tracking.
Note: When you enable tracking for an object, be sure to customize your page layouts
to include the object’s history related list.
EDITIONS
Available in: Contact
Manager, Group,
Professional, Enterprise,
Performance, Unlimited,
Developer, and
Database.com Editions
Standard Objects are not
available in Database.com
USER PERMISSIONS
4. For accounts, contacts, leads, and opportunities, select the Enable Account History ,
Enable Contact History , Enable Lead History , or Enable
Opportunity History checkbox.
5. Choose the fields you want tracked.
To set up which fields are
tracked:
• “Customize Application”
You can select a combination of up to 20 standard and custom fields per object. This limit includes fields on business accounts and
person accounts.
Certain changes, such as case escalations, are always tracked.
You can’t track the following fields:
• Formula, roll-up summary, or auto-number fields
• Created By and Last Modified By
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