The Date/Time field in salesforce is a great tool when you need to capture both date and time.
In practice, this looks like a lot of next-meeting fields or last-meeting fields.
It is pretty straightforward when you get into creating the field and the use cases are far and few between.
Youtube Video
One thing to note here before getting into the tutorial, we do have a video on how to create this field on the salesforce emily youtube channel!
Sometimes it is a bit easier to watch someone perform a task rather than to try and follow along with a blog post.
Step by Step
The first thing you will need to do is get to the setup portion of salesforce.
To do this click on the gear icon in the top right corner of salesforce then select setup.
From there click on the object manager.
Then select the object that you wish to create this new field for.
I selected account.
Click on fields and relatoinships. This will take you to see all of current fields on the object.
Click on the new button to create the new field.
Select the Date/Time field type.
Click next and you will be asked to enter in the metadata this is mostly going to be the naming conventions.
Click next and set the field level security to allow or disallow certain actions on the field.
Hit next and select the page layouts that you wish for this new field to be apart of.
Click save and you have created your very own Date/Time field in salesforce.
Conclusion
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