During application development or Org-to-Org migration, Salesforce admins and developers often need to create hundreds of custom fields across various standard and custom objects. Manually creating each salesforce field typically involves a 5-step process and takes around 1 minute per field.

If you’re dealing with 200–500 fields, this turns into hours of repetitive, time-consuming work—leading to delays, fatigue, and the risk of manual errors.

✅ The Solution: BOFC (Bulk Object Field Creator)
BOFC is a native Force.com application designed to eliminate this bottleneck. It enables users to Bulk create custom fields across multiple objects in just a few clicks—saving hours of effort.

BOFC Makes Mass Salesforce Field Creation Easy

With BOFC, users can create fields across standard and custom objects in three ways:

• Import from External Salesforce Org
  Seamlessly pull in custom fields from another Salesforce org.
• Upload CSV, XLS, or XLSX Files
  Drag and drop field definitions using simple Excel sheets.
• Manual Bulk Entry
  Add multiple fields of various data types in a single go through the intuitive UI.

Why Use BOFC for Bulk Create Custom Fields?

• ✅ Create Fields Across Multiple Objects Simultaneously
• 📥 Import from External Orgs or Excel Files
• 👥 Assign Field Permissions to Multiple Profiles/Permission Sets
• 🧩 Add Fields to Multiple Page Layouts Instantly
• 🔄 Support for All Field Types (Text, Picklist, Date, etc.)
• 🌐 Automatically Create Global Picklists from External Orgs

Benefits

• ⏱️ Save Time: Reduce hours of manual work to minutes
• 🧠 Increase Productivity: Focus on strategic tasks, not repetitive clicks
• 🛡️ Minimize Errors: Eliminate the risk of manual input mistakes
• 🖱️ User-Friendly: Clean, intuitive interface that requires no training

Whether you’re migrating orgs, building apps, or managing large metadata changes—BOFC simplifies the mass field creation process and boosts your team’s efficiency.

Simple Steps to Create Bulk Custom Fields in Salesforce:

1. Click App Launcher & open BOFC “Bulk Field Creation” page

2. Select single or multiple objects (user can select any kind of object standard or custom or both)

3. User can select single or multiple (Profiles or Permission Sets or both) to assign field permissions and can select single or multiple layouts to assign newly created fields

Profile & Layout selection

Permission-Sets selection

4. User can add rows of multiple fields in three ways. Let’s review all the above ways one by one:

Option 1: Manually Add New Rows – User can add any number of rows of any field type by using this option.

Option 2: Import fields from External Salesforce org– User can import custom fields of any kind of object (Standard/Custom/Managed) from any external Salesforce org (Production/Sandbox/Developer)

    It will open the below popup to select source org information

Above image has few features (each number has its description as below):

1. 1. Select the Source Org from where the fields needs to be imported
   2. Enter the API name of the Source Object & Click Fetch Custom Fields
   3. Select single or multiple custom fields
   4. If any selected fields of type picklist is referencing any global picklist, then BOFC can import global picklist along with Field.
   5. Click this button to import selected fields from Source Org.

Option 3: Import using CSV / XLS: In this option, user can import set of fields using CSV or XLS sheet. The sheet should in the proper format and can easily import any number of fields (Refer: Sample Template)

5. Once rows are added in the table using any of the above discussed options, the field creation screen will look like below:

• Above image has some features (each number has its description as below):

1. 1. Select rows which needs to be created as new fields in Salesforce
   2. User can modify field type (if required).
   3. User can choose Object name (same or different) on all rows.
   4. Click “Create New Fields” button to create fields in Salesforce
   5. Click “Delete Rows” to delete any unwanted rows.
   6. Pagination – This page has a pagination if count of fields is more than 80. Each page shows 80 fields. User can use “>” or “<” or “<<” or “>>” buttons to navigate on other pages.
   7. Counts:
      • Max no of fields – 80 – Each page shows 80 fields
      • Total no of rows – Number of rows added in table to create new fields
      • Total no of rows (selected) – Count of rows selected to create new fields

6. Select your rows & verify all the details in required columns or remove error (if any).

Click “Create New Fields” button to add newly fields to a selected objects. Once this button is clicked, it will show a popup for all the actions and their status.

7. Also, it will show “Success or Error” status message in-front of each row.

• • Green means – Row created successfully as field, assigned field permissions to profiles & assigned to layouts
  • Red means – Row error out with some error message

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Have you started using BOFC yet? Thousands of BOFC users have been able to save time & boost productivity using our Salesforce Metadata app. Click here to install the latest version of BOFC application in your Salesforce instance & explore its complete benefits for you.

For any queries or suggestions, you can contact us at https://www.bofc.io/#contact or mail us: support@bofcapp.io. Our BOFC Expert will help you get the best out of it.

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