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Manage Deleted Fields in Lightning Experience

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Manage Deleted Fields in Lightning Experience

Restore or permanently delete a custom field in Lightning Experience.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience

Available in: Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions

Page Layouts and Lead Fields are not available in Database.com
User Permissions Needed
To restore deleted custom fields and relationships: Customize Application
To permanently delete custom fields or relationships: Customize Application
  1. From the Object Manager page, click the name of the custom object.
  2. Click Fields & Relationships.
  3. To see a list of soft deleted fields, click Deleted Fields at the top of the Custom Fields & Relationships page.
  4. From the list of deleted fields, perform the following actions:
    1. To permanently remove the custom field and its data, click Erase.
    2. To restore the field and its data, click Undelete.
      If you undelete a custom field, manually restore attributes of the deleted field that weren’t automatically restored.

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