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I have a formula field based on a date field, and I want to have the date field encrypted using Shield Platform Encryption. But when I try to turn the encryption on I get:

Error on fields update message=Encryption can't be enabled for fields referenced in the custom formula fields: Benefit Claimed.Years in Force at Date of Death. Make sure your permissions, fields, operators, and functions are compatible with encryption and try again. statusCode=FIELD_INTEGRITY_EXCEPTION fields=null

Part of the formula is:

YEAR(DateOfDeath__c) - YEAR(EffectiveDateOfCoverage__c)

Am I correct that I am stuck here, and that e.g. YEAR is never amongst the:

... functions are compatible with encryption ...

mentioned in the error message?

I am trying to see if having all the fields referenced in a formula encrypted is a workaround for Platform encryption scratch org errors "common.exception.SfdcSqlException: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected CHAR got DATE". But also having this field encrypted makes sense.

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  • You could move the computation into Apex.
    – Adrian Larson ♦
    May 7, 2019 at 18:01
  • We ran into the same issue, we wanted to display age in UI based on date of birth which we had to encrypt due to PII restrictions, finally we got rid of the formula field and did the calculation in run time UI.
    – RedDevil
    May 7, 2019 at 18:05
  • Thanks@AdrianLarson and @RedDevil; this managed package is live for many customers so such a change has its risks. But sounds like there is no easy solution.
    – Keith C
    May 7, 2019 at 18:07
  • we had same issue in our org and I resorted to managing the value in apex
    – cropredy
    May 8, 2019 at 1:34
  • Thanks @cropredy; that is 3 out of 3 for having to use Apex.
    – Keith C
    May 8, 2019 at 6:42

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You can read the value of an encrypted field in Apex. That would allow you to replace this formula field with a writeable field and move the calculation to an Apex Trigger (or some other Apex binding).

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