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I have an action on which i have one Lookup Field "Year".Year is an object with only two records - 2015 , 2016.

I have this value to be predefined as 2016 when user clicks an action While creating a predefined value for this lookup , i tried putting directly 2016 just to check what happens as i am not aware how formula works. i got this EXPECTED error:

Formula result is data type (Number), incompatible with expected data type (Lookup(Sales Year)

Does anyone has any idea how i can acheive this/or i can i pass the id of record 2016 in the formula editor??

Thanks in Advance

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  • Did you try using url parameters? You may need to override the standard New button with custom button and pass the default values as url paraneters. – javanoob Mar 14 '16 at 12:18
  • I am creating an standard action on Object.I dont think i can override – Samir Mar 14 '16 at 12:54
  • Can the lookup field just be adjusted to a picklist? You could use global picklists to ensure the same set of years across all places that you reference it – Brian Miller Apr 4 '19 at 22:34
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Please Refer to these documents-

How to Give Default value to a LookUp field in salesforce

http://www.datixinc.com/define-default-value-lookup-field-salesforce-com/

Hope it helps you.

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    That is URL Hacking and that we cant do in actions.We need to write the formula only to set predefined values and i guess it cant be achieve just with the formula.I think i need to create a hidden look up and using URL hack auto populate its value and then i can use it in formula in my action – Samir Mar 14 '16 at 13:27

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