How to Enable Field History Tracking in Salesforce

Field History Tracking

You can select certain fields to track and display the field history in the History related list of an object. The Field history data is retained for up to 18 months.

Enable history tracking

It allows you to track changes on up to 20 standard or custom fields on an object which can be viewed on a record’s History related list or through History reports.

For each field, tracking logs the date and time of change, the user making the change, and old and new values.

  • We cannot track all the Standard fields, Roll-up Summary fields and Formula fields.
  • It won’t show modified values and old values for Multi-Picklist, Long Textarea fields and Field’s length more than 255 characters.History tracking shows the following:
  1. Prior value – old value.
  2. Current value – value.
  3. Who has done the changes – person who modified it.
  4. When it was changed – date and time of modification.

For Standard Object:

1. Go to any standard object fields and click “Set History Tracking” button.

2. Enable “Enable Account History” check box, select the fields for tracking and click “Save” button.

3. Go to the page layout and add the tracking history related list.

For Custom Object:

1. Go to any custom object and click “Set History Tracking” button.

Note: If Set History Tracking button is not available for Custom object, make sure that Track Field History check box is checked.

2. Select the fields for tracking and click “Save” button.

3. Go to the page layout and add the tracking history related list.

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