Global Fields

Global Fields

Just like Global Sets for Picklists, we would like to have global fields for any kind of field. 

Three things that should be saved globally:
1. The Existence of the field
2. The Name and
3.  Association with a module
 should be set up in a respective place in the CRM.



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