Make the Account Field Required for Contacts

You may want to make the Account field required when salespeople create a contact, so that you can be sure an account always gets associated with a contact. By default, the Account field isn't required when creating a contact.

Use Application Composer to set the field as required:

1. Ensure you're working in an active sandbox.

2. Navigate to Configuration > Application Composer.

3. In the navigation tree, expand Standard Objects, and then expand Contact.

4. Click the Pages node.

5. Ensure that the Application Pages tab is selected.

6. In the Create Contact layouts region, duplicate the standard layout and edit the resulting layout.

7. In the Creation Layout page, click the Account link.

8. In the Edit UI Properties: Account dialog box, Layout Properties section, set the Required field to Yes.

9. Click Save and Close.

10. Click Done on the Creation Layout page.

11. Publish the sandbox according to your company's business practices.