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Getting Started > Working with Records > About Concatenated Fields > Considerations When Editing Fields in a Concatenated Field
Considerations When Editing Fields in a Concatenated Field
The following considerations apply when you edit the fields within a concatenated field:
- If your administrator specifies a field as read-only for the record type or in the Detail page layout, then you cannot edit that field within a concatenated field.
- If your administrator specifies that a field is required, then that field must have a value when it is part of a concatenated field.
- Any field validation rules that apply to a field continue to apply to the field when it is part of a concatenated field.
- If your update to a field within a concatenated field fails the validation rules for the field, then none of your changes to the fields are saved. In other words, either all of your changes in the edit window are saved or none of them are saved.
- When you edit a concatenated field on a record Edit page, your changes are not saved when you click Save to close the edit window for the concatenated field. Your changes to the fields within the concatenated field are saved when you save the record.
- Smart associations are not supported in fields within concatenated fields. If a concatenated field includes a field that allows you to associate a record with the record you are working with, then you must click the Lookup icon to open the Lookup window where you can search for the record that you want. For information about smart associations, see About Smart Associations and the Auto-Resolve Functionality.
- You cannot edit any of the additional text that your administrator specifies within a concatenated field.
About Address Fields in Concatenated Fields
Your administrator can include fields from addresses in a concatenated field. When you edit a concatenated field that includes a field from an address, the following considerations apply:
- If an address field in a concatenated field is from a shared address on an account, contact, dealer, or partner record, then you cannot edit the fields within the address. Instead, you can select a different address.
- If the field is from an address that is not a shared address, then the following considerations apply:
- You can edit all of the fields within the address.
For example, if the Billing City field is included in a concatenated field, then you can edit all of the fields within the billing address template for the relevant country. If the concatenated field also includes a field from another address, such as the Shipping City field from the shipping address, then you can also edit all of the fields within the template for that address for the relevant country.
- If you select a different country for the address, then the labels of the other fields within the address template change accordingly.
NOTE: If the concatenated field includes an address field that is not part of the address template for the country in the address on the record, then the field is blank within the concatenated field. In this case, when you edit the concatenated field, you can edit the fields that make up the address template for the address on the record. However, you cannot edit the field that is part of the concatenated field unless you change the country in the address and the address template for the new country includes the field.
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