Your page layout and field-level security settings determine which contact fields are
visible and editable.
Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning
Experience
Available in: all editions
Field
Description
Account Name
The account that the contact is linked to. Enter the account
name, select the account from a list, or create an account. Private contacts don’t
have an account.
Allow Customer Portal Self-Registration
If you allow access to a customer portal, when selected, allows contacts to self-register for it.
Assistant
The contact’s assistant. Maximum 40
characters.
Asst. Phone
The assistant’s phone number. Maximum 40
characters.
Birthdate
The contact’s birthday. Click the field, and then
choose a date from the calendar.
Contact Currency
The default currency for all currency amount fields in the contact. Amounts are
displayed in the contact currency and converted to the user’s personal
currency. Available when multiple currencies are used.
Contact Division
The division that the contact belongs to. This value is inherited from the
related account.
Available when divisions are used to segment data.
Contact Owner
The contact’s assigned owner. Not available in Personal Edition.
Contact Record Type
The name of the field that determines what picklist values are available for the
record. Available in Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Performance, and Developer
Editions.
Created By
The user who created the contact. Includes creation date and time. Read
only.
Custom Links
A list of custom links for contacts, as set up by your administrator.
Department
The associated business or organizational unit.
Maximum 80 characters.
Description
The contact’s description. Maximum 32 KB of data. The first 255 characters appear
in reports.
Email
The contact’s email address. A valid email address is
required. Maximum 80 characters.
Click the email address in this field to
send an email using your personal email application. This action isn’t logged as an
activity on the contact record.
If the Gmail
Buttons and Links feature is enabled, click the Gmail link next to the field
to send an email from your Gmail account.
Email Opt Out
Whether the contact wants to receive email (false) or not (true).
Engagement History
A chart showing the contact's inbound and outbound engagements for the last 30
days. Available with Sales Engagement.
Fax
The contact’s fax number. Maximum 40 characters. On the Contact object, the API
label for this field is Business Fax.
First Name
The contact’s first name, as displayed on the contact edit page. Maximum 40
characters.
First Name (Local)
The contact’s first name, translated into the local language.
Gender Identity
The contact's personal and self-identified experience of their gender, which may
or may not correspond to the contact's designated sex at birth.
Home Phone
The contact’s home phone number. Maximum 40
characters.
Last Modified By
The user who last changed the contact fields, including modification date and
time. This field doesn’t track changes that were made to any of the related list items
on the contact. Read only.
Last Name
The contact’s last name as displayed on the contact edit page. Maximum 80
characters.
Last Name (Local)
The contact’s last name, translated into the local language.
Lead Source
The record source: for example, Advertisement,
Partner, or Web. The entry is selected from a picklist of available values, which
the administrator sets. Maximum 40 characters for each picklist value.
Mailing City
The city in the mailing address. Maximum 40
characters.
Mailing Country
The country in the mailing address. Maximum 80 characters.
Mailing State/Province
The state or province in the mailing address. Maximum 80 characters.
Mailing Street
The street in the mailing address. Maximum 255
characters.
Mailing Zip/Postal
Code
The zip or postal code in the mailing address.
Maximum 20 characters.
Middle Name
The contact’s middle name, as displayed on the contact edit page. Maximum 40 characters.
To enable this field, from Setup, enter User Interface in the Quick Find box, then select User Interface. Then select Enable Middle Names for Person Names.
Middle Name (Local)
The contact’s middle name, translated into the local language.
To enable this field, from Setup, enter User Interface in the Quick Find box, then select User Interface. Then select Enable Middle Names for Person Names.
Mobile
The contact’s mobile phone number. Maximum 40 characters.
The API field name on the Contact object is MobilePhone.
Name
The contact’s combined first name, middle name, last name, and suffix, as
displayed on the contact detail page.
Other City
The city in another address for the contact. Maximum
40 characters.
Other Country
The country in another address for the contact. The entry is selected from a
picklist of standard values or entered as text. If the field is a text field, maximum
80 characters.
Other State/Province
The state or province in another address for the contact. The entry is selected
from a picklist of standard values or entered as text. If the field is a text field,
maximum 80 characters.
Other Street
The street address in another address for the
contact. Maximum 255 characters.
Other Zip/Postal Code
The zip or postal code in another address for the
contact. Maximum 20 characters.
Other Phone
Another phone number for the contact. Maximum 40
characters.
Phone
The contact’s primary phone number. Maximum 40
characters. On the Contact object, the API label for this field is Business Phone.
Pronouns
The contact’s personal pronouns, reflecting their gender identity. The entry is
selected from a picklist of available values, which the administrator sets. Maximum 40
characters.
Reports To
The name of the contact’s manager. Enter a contact name, or select a
contact from the list.
Salutation
The title for addressing the contact, for example,
Mr., Ms., or Dr. The entry is selected from a picklist of available values, which
the administrator sets. Maximum 40 characters.
Suffix
The suffix in the contact’s name, as displayed on the contact edit page. Maximum 40 characters.
To enable this field, from Setup, enter User Interface in the Quick Find box, then select User Interface. Then select Enable Middle Names for Person Names.
Title
The contact’s position within the organization. Maximum
128 characters.
Total Cadences
The number of Sales Engagement cadences the contact is assigned to. This field is
only available in list views.
Username
For Self-Service contacts only. The Username defaults to the
Email. Contacts enter their usernames when logging in to the
Self-Service portal.
Note Starting with Spring ’12, the Self-Service portal
isn’t available for new Salesforce orgs. Existing orgs continue to have
access to the Self-Service portal.
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