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Again, new to Salesforce, trying to do good things for good people. I have inherited a custom object with a data type of 'text' and it seems to be limited to 40 characters. Is there a way to expand that field length to 255? I've brought the object down to the IDE and have added the attribute to the length, but when I try to reload it back to SF, it disappears like I never typed it. Here's what it looks like in the IDE: custom object code

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  • If it is just about changing the length of a text field of an object, cant you do it directly in SF?
    – Richard N
    Commented Jul 11, 2013 at 19:54
  • @RichardN Yes, probably, but since I pulled everything into the IDE it was what I was working in at the time.
    – SQLHound
    Commented Jul 12, 2013 at 14:09
  • Based on the responses received, I find this aspect of SF to be very frustrating. I know I've seen the place to make requests on the developer site, but does anyone know where to find it offhand? I may as well file this along with my other situations with no known solution.
    – SQLHound
    Commented Jul 12, 2013 at 14:11
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    Vote for this idea if you would like to see this enhanced in a future release: success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000kowTAAQ
    – user10017
    Commented Jun 20, 2014 at 1:00

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What you have in your screen shot is a field "Name Field" for a custom object. If i remember right, it is limited to 80 characters which cannot be expanded.

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It is not possible to change the length of the standard "Name" field on a custom object.

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