Open Source Salesforce - Add Character Countdowns to Text Fields on Page Layouts!

In this episode we go over my new open source component that allows you to add character counts to text fields on your Salesforce page layouts! Now your users will always know how many characters a text field is and how many characters are left to use in it!

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Table of Contents:

0:00 - Intro
0:42 - What is the Character Counting Component?
3:09 - How to setup the character counting component on record edit pages
8:09 - How to setup the character counter on new record pages
12:13 - Quick flow demo
13:30 - How to install the character counting component
16:10 - Outro

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