How to Create Custom Objects in Salesforce? : Bijay Kumar

November 16, 2025 November 16, 2025

How to Create Custom Objects in Salesforce?
by: Bijay Kumar
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### Summary of Salesforce Object Integration When integrating Salesforce CRM for a hospital chain, we developed custom objects to store data for patients, departments, and doctors, tailored to the client's specific needs. In Salesforce, an object functions like a database table for storing company-related data, and there are two main types of objects: 1. **Standard Objects**: These are pre-built by Salesforce to handle common business data. Examples include: - **Account**: Information about organizations. - **Contact**: Details of individuals linked to business accounts. - **Campaign**: Data on marketing campaigns. - **Leads**: Potential customer information. - **Case**: Records of customer issues. 2. **Custom Objects**: These are created by users to store unique business data. A custom object's API name ends with "_c" to indicate it's user-defined. ### Steps to Create a Custom Object: To create a custom object in Salesforce, follow these steps: 1. Navigate to the Setup page and open the Object Manager. 2. Click on the 'Create' dropdown and select 'Custom Object.' 3. Fill in necessary fields (Label, Plural Label, Object Name, Description, Record Name). 4. Set the Data Type (Text or Autonumber). 5. Enable Optional Features for reporting if needed and ensure the Deployment Status is set to 'Deployed.' 6. Optionally, check the Launch New Custom Tab Wizard to add the object to an app. 7. Click 'Save' and select the tab style for the object. 8. Choose the app to which you want to add this custom object via the App list. After completing these steps, you can verify the new custom object in the selected app. ### Conclusion This guide provided an overview of standard and custom objects in Salesforce, emphasizing their importance and how to create and incorporate custom objects into existing applications. ### Additional Context Understanding Salesforce's objects can help organizations efficiently manage their data. Custom objects are particularly useful for businesses with unique data storage requirements, ensuring that all necessary information is captured accurately. ### Hashtags for SEO #Salesforce #CRM #CustomObjects #StandardObjects #SalesforceIntegration #DataManagement #SalesforceTutorial #TechGuide #CloudComputing #HealthcareCRM #SalesforceCustomization #SalesforceDevelopment

While integrating Salesforce CRM for our client, a chain of hospitals, we had to create objects that could store data for various hospital entities, such as patients, departments, and doctors. We created custom objects according to the requirements.

Here, I will explain the standard and custom objects in Salesforce and how we can create custom objects.

What are Objects in Salesforce?

In Salesforce, an object is a database table that stores data specific to your company. Objects are essential to Salesforce data, as they enable us to set up and manage our data effectively.

There are two types of objects in Salesforce:

1. Standard Objects in Salesforce.

A standard object in Salesforce is a pre-built object provided by Salesforce. Standard objects have been created to manage business data.

The following are some examples of standard objects in Salesforce:

Account: This object allows us to store information about companies or organizations.
Contact: In the contact object, we can store and manage information about individuals associated with your business accounts
Campaign: Here, we can store data about campaigns.
Leads: Leads are potential customers generated through the campaign.
Case: In the case object, we can store customer issues.

2. Custom Object in Salesforce.

We can create custom objects in Salesforce to store business-specific information. These custom objects enable you to store data unique to your organization. We can also add custom objects to the standard and custom apps.

When we create a custom object, its API Name will appear as ObjectName_c. This _c refers to the custom app or objects. We can create custom fields in the objects.

Create a Custom Object in Salesforce

As discussed in the requirements, we will now create custom patient objects to store patient records. To create a custom object in Salesforce, follow the steps below.

Go to the Setup page and click the Object Manager tab. Then click on the Create dropdown. You will see the Custom Object option. Click on it.

How to Create Custom Objects in Salesforce?

Then, you will see the New Custom Object page open. There, you need to enter the following details:

Label: The label name is the object name that appears in the Salesforce user interface.
Pural Label: The plural label field is the plural form of the object label.
Object Name: The Object Name field is the unique identifier for the custom object used in the Salesforce API, and it is automatically populated based on the object name.
Description: You can describe your object. It is optional.

Then, as you scroll down, you will see the Record Name field, where we can set the field name as per our requirements. Then, we need to select the Data Type. In the data type, we have two options: Text or Autonumber.
- Then, if you want to create reports of this object’s records, you can allow it by checking the Allow Optional Features option.

How to Create Custom Object in Salesforce

Then, the Deployment Status must be ‘Deployed’; otherwise, you cannot use this object. You can use the allow search feature to add notes and attachments to the object UI.
- If you want to add this object to the app, check the Launch New Custom Tab Wizard option. Then, click the Save button.

When you click the save button, you will be redirected to the New Custom Object Tab page.
- Here, you need to select the Object we created and the Tab Style by clicking on the lookup icon. Then, click on the Next button.

Here, you will see the App list in the Salesforce org, and you need to select which app you want to add this object.

To check whether a custom object and tab were created, go to the App Launcher and select the app on which you added this object. Here, you can see the object has been added to the App.

This is how we can create and add custom objects to Salesforce’s app.

Conclusion

I hope you have an idea about standard and custom objects in Salesforce. In that, we have seen what standard and custom objects are and the differences between them.

We also explored the need for a custom object in Salesforce, and I demonstrated how to create a custom Salesforce object and add it to the app with examples and step-by-step instructions.

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