Make Last Name field in Leads and Contacts Unrequired (workaround)

Make Last Name field in Leads and Contacts Unrequired (workaround)

There has been a lot of talk regarding making Last Name field an unrequired field. 

As it's not available yet here is a short tutorial video considering a workaround using import/export of translation in CRM. Also includes how you can undo if it's not the result you wanted. 


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Milton Djietror

Moderation update (10-Jun-23): We don't have any official updates to share at this point of time. The team is checking on the possibilities of handling this requirement. Milton's work-around  is a tested solution and is being used by many of our customers. There is another active thread to discuss this request. In order to avoid redundancy and, centralize the feedback and updates related to this feature request at a single place, we're locking this post.  Do follow this post for further updates.

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