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Establish a Picklist Upper Bound Limit

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Establish a Picklist Upper Bound Limit

You can enforce an upper bound limit of inactive values on existing picklists. The limit is enforced on the inactive values of unrestricted, custom picklists whose numbers don’t exceed the allowable limit. By default, all new unrestricted picklists have an enforced limit of 4,000 inactive values.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: All Editions
User Permissions Needed
To create or change custom fields: Customize Application
  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Picklist Settings, and then select Picklist Settings.
  2. On the Picklist Settings page, click Establish upper bound on existing picklists.

A query runs to identify picklists that have fewer than 4,000 inactive values. The limit is then enforced only on those picklists. A message appears to show the number of picklists that were bound to the limit, or that there are no unbound picklists that meet the limit.

You can run the upper bound on existing picklists multiple times. For example, if you delete picklist values, you can potentially reduce the total number of values to be less than the limit. Admins or Salesforce can’t configure the limit of 4,000 inactive values.

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