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Enable Enhanced Lookups
Enable enhanced lookups in Classic so users can sort, filter, and page through their results. Enhanced lookups are available only for specific objects.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Available in: all editions except Database.com |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To enable enhanced lookups: | Customize Application |
A custom object that’s associated with a custom tab is searchable by default, even if users don’t add the tab for display.
- From Setup, enter Search Settings in the Quick Find box, then select Search Settings.
- In the Lookup Settings area, select the objects for which you want to enable enhanced lookup functionality. If the option to enable enhanced lookup functionality isn’t there, then enhanced lookups aren’t available for the object.
- Click Save.
After enabling enhanced lookups, specify which fields users can use to filter lookup search results. If you don't specify any fields, your users can't use filters in enhanced lookup dialogs. Enhanced lookups are available only for specific objects. Fields configured to use enhanced lookups don’t support single character searches (except for searches in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai) or wildcards at the beginning of search terms.
If you enable enhanced lookups in your org, it’s also enabled for the Visualforce pages you create. However, enhanced fields aren’t available for Salesforce sites. To change an enhanced lookup back to a regular lookup, disable the object as an enhanced lookup from your Lookup Settings.
