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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › Can we create a field on Person Account directly in Salesforce?

    Tagged: Account ID, Contact Object, Custom Fields, Extension, Fields in Salesforce, Person Accounts

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      Can we create a field on Person Account directly in Salesforce?

      Posted by Prachi on August 29, 2018 at 12:33 PM

      Can we create a field on Person Account directly in Salesforce?

      shariq replied 8 years, 1 month ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
      • Account ID
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      • Person Accounts
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    • Avnish Yadav

      Member
      August 29, 2018 at 12:34 PM

      Hi Prachi,

      No. We need to create a field on contact which will appear for Person Account as well. Fields created on Contact appear on Account with extension __pc.

      Thanks.

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    • Anurag algoworks

      Member
      August 29, 2018 at 12:36 PM

      Hi Prachi,

      No. We need to create a field on contact which will appear for Person Account as well. Fields created on Contact appear on Account with extension __pc. a Person Accounts is also considered a Contact in the salesforce back-end, therefore, person accounts have an Account Id and a Contact Id. Every custom field created in the Contact object is available for Person Accounts using the __pc. If you want a field for person account only create the field in the Contact object.

      • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by  Anurag algoworks.
    • Parul

      Member
      August 29, 2018 at 12:37 PM

      Hello Prachi,

      No we cannot create  a field on person account directly. We need to create a field on contact which will appear for Person Account as well. Fields created on Contact appear on Account with extension __pc

      you refer this link for reference : https://www.jitendrazaa.com/blog/salesforce/salesforce-interview-questions-part-24-person-account/

      Thanks.

      Parul Singh

      • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by  Parul.
    • shariq

      Member
      September 14, 2018 at 10:36 PM

      Hi,

      The __pc stands for person contact and are custom fields in the Contact object.

      This is how it works: a Person Accounts is also considered a Contact in the salesforce back-end, therefore, person accounts have an Account Id and a Contact Id. Every custom field created in the Contact object is available for Person Accounts using the __pc. If you want a field for person account only create the field in the Contact object.

      Hope this helps.

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