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Hello Community Experts,
I'm using sandbox and I have few columns with same display name in my lead form because of which I'm not able to download the template.
My question is if i rename the display name of those columns and copy it to production, will i be loosing any data in my production instance?
Best Regards,
Sumaira Noor
Hi Sumaira,
Don't worry, you won't lose any data.
The 'display name' is only used in the end user interface to give the user a friendly name. The fields stored in the backend use the 'name' attribute as the field name.
Once the field is created, the value of the 'name' attribute cannot be modified.
So, you have multiple 'display name' duplicate fields, because their 'name' attribute is actually different, and changing 'display name' will not affect the 'name' attribute, so it will not affect the data.
Hi,
No, disaplay name will not affect any data. It is purely for display purpose.
Hope this helps.
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