Salesforce Encrypted Field can be used to encrypt the information because encrypted information is sensitive information that we don’t want everyone to see.
Encrypted Field in Salesforce is one of the important topics in Salesforce, so I decided to write a complete article on this.
In this Salesforce tutorial, I will explain the text encrypted field and how to create one in Salesforce Lightning and Classic interface.
Encrypted field in Salesforce
This text-encrypted field is the field that permits the users to reserve the sensitive data in the text-encrypted form and the mask is applied to the data when the data is shown. The other user cannot show this sensitive data without the appropriate permission.
For example, if A person has an account in a bank, there is a lot of encrypted information is sensitive information that we don’t want everyone to see.
To make this more encrypted we can use the text encrypted field for that information from which the other user can not see this sensitive information without the appropriate permission of the account holder. For making the information protective this text-encrypted field is very helpful and useful.
Now, let’s move further and see how to create the text encrypted field type in Salesforce Lightning and Salesforce Classic.
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Create Text Encrypted Field in Salesforce
How to Create Encrypted Field in Salesforce Lightning
Here, we are creating the text-encrypted field type in Salesforce Lightning.
Consider a scenario: We are using the account object. Inside the account object, we want to add the credit card number as a text encrypted field because the credit card number has sensitive information, and the account holder did not w