I need to remove unused fields from the table. What could be the best practice to do that ?

[Kaleem A]

Hi All,

I have an existing application in my instance. Table is extended from task table. I need to remove unused fields from the table. What could be the best practice to do that ?

Regards,

Kaleemullah Akbar

[a_anshu]

Hi,

Whether or not the fields are being used in the background does not matter. All you do using form layout is you hide the fields from the form, which are not to be filled in. Even if they are not on the form and are used in background, they will continue their functionality in the same way.

To remove fields from form just right click on the banner where name of the form is written and select form layout. There you will se two buckets, one is for available and the other for selected, just remove the choices from the selected bucket if you don't want them to be visible on form.

Hope it helps,

Abhinav Anshu

[a_anshu]

Hi Jason,

Unselecting an option fron the selected bucket will never lead to removal of field from table, it will just no more be visible.

Regards

Abhinav Anshu

[JusCuz]

Yes, I know that, but his initial question was about removing unused fields from a table, this you do not want to do, especially in regards to system default fields.

[a_anshu]

True that, why remove anything when we can easily hide them.