Bulk Object Field Creator: How to “Clone Custom Settings” in Bulk in Salesforce in few clicks?

ABC Company is using Salesforce to manage its Sales, Service Cloud activities. They have lot of Custom Settings which are being used to manage specific information for the business processes.

ABC Company is expanding its business and want to setup a new Salesforce org (Org 2) which is replica of existing salesforce org (Org 1). In order to replicate, they need to perform multiple activities like:

Clone Custom Objects & all of its custom fields, validation rules, Page-layouts, Field Sets: Refer this article to perform this action in few clicks

Clone Flows: Refer this article to perform this action in few clicks

Clone Custom Settings

How can user clone multiple custom settings from any source org to current Org?

As both the orgs (Org 1 & Org 2) are not inter-linked to each other, Alex (an administrator of ABC Company), will have to manually copy each and every entities and complete his action.

For eg: In case, if a developer has to clone custom settings of different types, then admin would have to open each and every custom setting and clone them to new org.

These type of work requests would take much more effort and time, but with our Salesforce Appexchange Bulk Object Field Creator (BOFC) App, user can clone multiple custom settings within "Current Salesforce org" or from any "External Salesforce org" in few clicks.

Benefits of using BOFC Application to Clone Custom Settings:

User can clone any type of Custom Settings using BOFC
This feature has option for a user to choose whether they need to override any existing or append any keyword to existing custom setting name
User can clone custom settings from Same or External (non-linked) salesforce org
Simple Point & Click UI only.

Few Simple Steps to Clone multiple Custom Settings in salesforce

1. Open the BOFC Home > Click "Clone Custom Settings"

2. It will open below screen for BOFC Clone Custom Settings. Select the mode of Operation as "Clone"

3. Select the "Source Org" from where you want to clone the custom settings

User can clone the custom settings from different type of source orgs:

Can clone from "Current Salesforce Org" in which BOFC is installed
Can clone from "External Salesforce org" (Salesforce org which are linked / non-linked to current org in which BOFC is installed)

4. Select the single or multiple custom settings which needs to be cloned. Once ready, click on "Click here to Continue" button to initiate the process.

Once this blue button is clicked, it will open a popup with some instruction in it. Just follow the instructions and you are done.

Append Keyword - User can add any keyword in the Custom Setting Name. If user leaves the field blank, then nothing will be added.

Type of Action -

Clone (which are not available) + Override (any existing) = In this case, the clone process will create the new custom settings & override any existing with same name

Only Clone which are not available in this org = In this case, the clone process will create the custom settings which are not available in the current org

6. Once the "Click here to Clone" buttons is clicked, it will update the status against each row for all the custom settings.