Step by Step Salesforce Tutorial – Creating custom object – 1 of 6

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Salesforce.com or SFDC is award wining CRM tool and many companies have started using the Salesforce because of flexibility, userfriendly and lots of applications available.

Prerequesties:

To start with this series, you must have below softwares:

  1. Developer Account of Salesforce
  2. Eclipse with Salesforce Plugin
  3. Internet Connection

Developer Account can be created, free of cost from here.

In previous article i have demonstrated that how to install force.com IDE in eclipse.

So, if you have above softwares then we can start with the actual development of application.

here, i hope that you have setup the eclipse with your salesforce account.

Right click on Salesforce project in eclipse and select Object (Custom object).

Below screen will appear.

Create Custom object Eclipse Salesforce

Create Custom object Eclipse Salesforce

For this tutorial, i am creating student object. so in rest of tutorial we will continue with this object.

We can create a custom object through salesforce also instead of eclipse, check below snap:

Create Custom object In Salesforce

Create Custom object In Salesforce

As you can see in above image :

Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Create -> Objects and click on “New Custom object“.

In the next article i will demonstrate, ho to create Fields in Salesforce.

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  • hollw jamal

    do u have any idea about how can i make an instance of my custom object, to be able to use in Apex Class ?

  • hima

    how to check whether API is enable or not?

    • JitendraZaa

      At Profile there is check box (Permission) for API.

  • Souvik Bose

    Getting below mentioned error message.
    Force.com Projects require an Organization with the metadata API enabled.
    API is not enabled for this organization or Partner.