Dolly is a cloning application for Salesforce administrators. This app is useful in cloning Salesforce objects and its fields. This supports point and click graphical user interface which is very simple to use.
Dolly is a free app. It is available for download from AppExchange at.
Often there is a business need to make a copy of one object to another. Let's say that an object has hundreds of custom fields. If we need to build a replica of this object, it can be a time-consuming process. Dolly app facilitates cloning of objects for Salesforce administrators.
- Cloning an object This app provides three functionalities. The first functionality is to clone standard and custom objects and copies only the custom fields of an object. The second functionality is to clone some selected custom fields of an object into some other existing object. It also provides the functionality to clone fields multiple times in an object.
- We type the name of the object.
- Then we type the name of the new object.
- We click on clone object.
- The cloning starts and the user is notified whether the cloning is successf.
- Cloning a subset of fields from one object to another
- We type the name of the source object.
- The custom fields of the object get displayed to the user.
- User can select the fields he wants to clone
- Type the name of the destination object which is already present in the Salesforce.
- Click on clone fields
- Creating copies of an existing field
- We type the name of the source object.
- The get field picklist automatically gets updated with the list of fields present in the object.
- Type the name of the new field.
- The add icon adds another field with different name.
- Click on clone fields.
If we want to create a new object with the same fields from the selected object, we go to the first link on the home page.
If we want to clone selected fields from the source to destination object, we click on the second link
If we want to clone field of a similar type within the object, we go to the third link
All these functionalities reduces the manual work for creating custom fields and is also an error free process.
However it has some limitations:
- RichTextArea, Geolocation, Rollup, External Lookup - Fields of these type cannot be cloned using this app
- . Checkbox - For this, the default value has to be set by user after the field gets clone.
- Autonumber - For this, Starting number and Display format has to be set by user.
- Formula - Formula fields referring to standard fields is not cloned.
- Standard fields will not get cloned in this app.