Truncate Custom Objects
Truncating custom objects allows you to delete all of the object’s records permanently, but preserve the empty object and its metadata.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Available in: Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To truncate custom objects: | Customize Application |
Truncating custom objects is a way to permanently remove all of the records from a custom object, while keeping the object and its metadata intact for future use. Truncating is useful, for example, if you’ve created a custom object and filled it with test records. When you’re done with the test data, you can truncate the object to purge the test records, but keep the object and put it into production. This is much faster than batch-deleting records and possibly recreating the object.
- Go to the object management settings for custom objects.
- Click an object name to go to the object’s detail page, and then click Truncate.
- In the Confirm Custom Object Truncate window, review the warning, then enter the name of the object to truncate in the empty field.
- Click Truncate.
