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Asked: 2026-06-08T19:42:01+00:00

This is a pretty simple question but I can’t seem to find an answer.

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This is a pretty simple question but I can’t seem to find an answer. I have created a long text area in Salesforce and set the visible lines to 2:

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But when viewing the field in a lead record – all rows are shown:

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Referring to the documentation for the visible lines attribute:

For long text area fields, set the number of lines to be displayed on edit pages.

So I can set the number of visible lines on the edit page no problem, but how do I set the number of visible lines for the text area long field on the lead details page?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since you can’t use Text Area (Long) within formulas you could create a before insert/update trigger to copy a shortened value to another custom field that you only display on the view layout?

    The approach might be a bit heavy handed and will also muck up the inline editing.

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