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Event Fields in Salesforce Classic
These standard fields for tracking and recording event details are available in Salesforce Classic.
Required Editions
| Available in Salesforce Classic in: All Editions |
| Events with invitees not available in: Personal Edition |
| Field | Description |
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| Activity Currency | Indicates the default currency for all currency amount fields in the activity. Amounts are displayed in the activity currency. They are also converted to the user’s personal currency. Available only in orgs in which multiple currencies are used. |
| All-Day Event | By selecting this checkbox, a user specifies that the event lasts all day. |
| Assigned To | Indicates the assigned owner of the event. If an event includes invitees, invitees get a copy of the original event in which the invitee is the event owner. However, on event detail pages, the invitee's copy displays Assigned To as the person assigned to the original event, even though the invitee owns the copy. This field isn’t available in Personal Edition. |
| Create Recurring Series of Events | By selecting this checkbox, a user can set up a series of recurring events. |
| Created By | Indicates the user who created the event, including the creation date and time. Read only. |
| Date | Indicates the planned date of the event. This field is displayed only if multiday events are disabled. |
| Description | Contains a note describing the event. This field holds up to 32 KB of data. |
| Division | Indicates the division to which the activity belongs. This value is automatically inherited from the related account, lead, case, or custom object, if any. Otherwise, the activity belongs to the global division. Available only in orgs in which divisions are used to segment data. |
| Duration | Represents the length of an event spanning less than a full day, in hours and minutes. This field appears only if multiday events are disabled. |
| Contains the email address of the contact or lead related to the event. This field is automatically filled in with the value from the related contact or lead record. | |
| End | Indicates the planned end date and time of the event. This field appears only if multiday events are enabled. |
| Event Record Type | Contains the name of the field that determines what picklist values are available for the record. Available in Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Performance, and Developer Editions. |
| Last Modified By | Contains the name of the user who last changed the event, including the modification date and time. Read only. |
| Name | Contains the name of the contact or lead related to the event. If Shared Activities is enabled in your org, a user can relate up to 50 contacts to a non-recurring event. This field is visible only to users with the “Read” permission for contacts and leads. Relating a contact to an event can affect the account to which Salesforce relates the event. See the Related To field. |
| Location | Indicates the location of the event. |
| Phone | Contains the phone number of the contact or lead related to the event. This field is automatically filled in with the value from the related contact or lead record. |
| Private | Indicates whether users other than the event owner can see the event details when viewing the event owner’s calendar. However, users with the “View All Data” or “Modify All Data” permission can see private event details in reports and searches, or when viewing other users’ calendars. Exported data files always contain private events. Events with invitees and events being added or changed in another user’s calendar can’t be marked private. Private events can’t be related to other records. |
| Public |  Note Before Summer ’13, this field was called Visible in
Self-Service. This checkbox specifies whether a past event is visible in 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. If digital experiences is enabled in your org, the value in this field specifies whether the event is visible to external users in Experience Cloud sites. If an external user owns the event, that user sees the event in the site regardless of whether the event is marked public. This field is not visible by default. A Salesforce admin can expose it. |
| Related To | Represents the record that the event is related to, such as an account, an opportunity, or a custom object. This field is available only when a user relates the event to a contact, not to a lead. The record is visible only to users with the “Read” permission for the type of record the event is related to. If you relate the event to an object other than an account, Salesforce determines the account on the event as follows.
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| Response | Optional field; allows users invited to an event to enter a note when they accept or decline the event. This field isn’t available in Personal Edition. |
| Select Invitees | Lets you relate up to 1,000 people (invitees) and resources to the event. When you search for people or resources to invite to an event, the Available list displays up to 300 results. |
| Show Time As | Picklist. Determines how the event appears when another user views your calendar: busy, out of office, or free. |
| Start | Planned start date and time of event. This field appears only if multiday events are enabled. |
| Subject | Contains the subject of the event; for example, “Meeting.” A user can enter a subject or select from a list of previously defined subjects. |
| Time | Indicates the start time of a planned event. This field appears only if multiday events are disabled. |
| Type | Indicates the event type; for example, email or meeting. Limit for values in the picklist is 40 characters. |
