Available in: Essentials, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited and Developer Editions
Important: While the "Create Audit Fields" feature is low-risk, we recommend reviewing as much documentation as possible prior to enabling it, starting with:
Set "audit" field values for imported records
System Administrators can enable the "Create Audit Fields" feature by granting the organization wide "Set Audit Fields upon Record Creation" and "Update Records with Inactive Owners" permissions.
Note: With these permissions, Lightning and API users can fill audit fields on record creation only through API tools. Future edits cannot be made.
In Salesforce Classic, APEX code can't be used to update lead record owners to inactive users, even when users have the "Set Audit Fields upon Record Creation" and "Update Records with Inactive Owners" permissions assigned to them.
1. From Setup, enter User Interface in the Quick Find box. Under User Interface, scroll down and select User Interface.
2. Scroll down to Setup. Select the checkbox for Enable "Set Audit Fields upon Record Creation" and "Update Records with Inactive Owners" User Permissions.
3. Click Save.
After enabling these organization wide permissions:
Grant the following profile permissions to your Users with Custom Profiles (see notes below for standard profiles):
Notes:
Original Support Video Content
Considerations and activation of 'Create Audit Fields'
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