🛠️ Custom Field Change Tracking in Salesforce – Overcoming Limitations of Field History Tracking
Salesforce is powerful, but like every platform, it has limitations. One such limitation is related to Field History Tracking —you can only track up to 20 fields per object , and even then, certain field types (like long text areas) aren’t supported. I recently came across this limitation during a project where tracking every update to Task fields was critical for compliance and reporting. So, I designed a custom field tracking solution using Apex Triggers and a custom object. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I built it and how you can implement it too. ❗ Why Custom Tracking? Out-of-the-box Salesforce lets you: Track up to 20 fields per object. Track changes on limited data types (excludes Long Text Area, Rich Text, etc.) View changes only in the standard history related list. But in my case, I needed to: Track more than 20 fields. Track long text fields like Description . Store change history in a separate custom object. Restrict deletion of histor...
