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HaydenMuhlHaydenMuhl 

Custom Data Types

I've got an idea for an improvement to Salesforce, but don't know who I would send it to, so I'm posting it here.

 

I would like to have an option to create a custom data type. Basically, what this would be is a set of the primitive data types (text, picklist, checkbox, etc.) already available on Salesforce. They would be associated with one another and treated as a single piece of data.

 

For example, I need a way to store Fiscal Year End in our accounts.  I can think of several ways to do this, but none of them are good.  What I really need is a datatype that stores just month and date information with no year.  I could use dependant picklists, but then the display would be very un-user-friendly.

 

Instead, I'd like to be able to define a custom data type that has a Month and Day field, and displays them as "MM/DD" or "Month DD".

 

Where would I send this idea?

werewolfwerewolf
The Ideas site is the place for this type of idea.  There are some roughly similar ideas but I haven't seen this one before.