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Following another question that was asking what are good naming conventions for SalesForce, I have another question about how to enforce such conventions, automatically, if possible.

We are 2 SalesForce administrators in our company, and I'm interested in reducing the time spent on naming, by improving the UX when creating objects and fields.

Currently, when I create a new field, I type the "label", which automatically pre-fill the "name". But that "name" doesn't quite follow the conventions I'd like to use (which can be found here).

Such convention prefer CamelCase over Snake_case, I'm not sure if that's a wise choice (does it has any bad repercussions?) but that'd be the way I'd go for it. But, SF autocomplete names using underscores by default, and I don't know how to change that.

Also, is there any way to show a warning when not following conventions? Or any tooling that could help to enforce rules?

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    Ditch the use of the Salesforce UI for metadata management and switch to using something like VSCode or IntelliJ IDEA + Illuminated Cloud. You can then add your own validation tooling (if there's nothing third party already available) that gets triggered before metadata gets pushed/deployed to any org.
    – Phil W
    Sep 17, 2019 at 11:52
  • Can't really do that, as the UI is used by non-developers admins.
    – Vadorequest
    Sep 17, 2019 at 12:07
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    OK, but that means you definitely can't enforce any conventions.
    – Phil W
    Sep 17, 2019 at 12:16
  • Too bad, I wasn't sure but I hoped I could. Like changing how the pre-filled "name" is generated
    – Vadorequest
    Sep 17, 2019 at 13:22

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