Salesforce Field Length for Segment Names

Brandon McBride
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Hi all!

Does anyone have advice on how we can create a field greater than 255 characters within Salesforce to push segment names into? Is it possible?

I'm working on a segment name generator for concise naming of segments for that field, but it would be great if we can open that field size up.

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  • Rahul
    Rahul Posts: 10 6senser

    Hi Brandon,

    You can use the Text Area (Long) Field type. You can refer to the following Salesforce Resource for more information.

    https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.custom_field_types.htm&type=5

    All the best!

    Rahul Agarwal

  • Brandon McBride
    Brandon McBride Posts: 300 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2024

    @Rahul That was my first thought, too, but I read here that the Text Area (Long) Field for custom fields only allows the first 255 characters to be searched. If I understand correctly, we then couldn't filter on any text past the initial 255 for reporting and other uses.

    I would be very happy if I misunderstand what the article is saying.

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