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platform-custom-setting-generate

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Use to create, generate, or validate Salesforce Custom Setting metadata. Trigger on custom settings (hierarchy/list), customSettingsType, SetupOwnerId, per-profile/per-user config overrides, feature flags/toggles, kill switches, or admin on/off switches (e.g. bypass triggers during a data load); also \"create a custom setting\" or a setting that silently deployed as a regular object. A kill switch is just a checkbox on a hierarchy setting — generate ONLY the setting, never an Apex trigger/handler. DO NOT TRIGGER for Custom Metadata Types (use platform-custom-metadata-type-generate), business-record objects (use platform-custom-object-generate), or secrets/tokens (use a Named Credential).

When to use

• Create a Hierarchy or List custom setting
• Generate custom setting metadata XML
• Add or validate fields on an existing custom setting
• Populate custom setting **values** (these are data, not metadata — see Section 6)
• Troubleshoot custom setting deployment errors

When not to use

• Custom Metadata Types
• Business-record objects
• Secrets or tokens
• Authoring Apex triggers or handlers
• Modeling bypass flags as Custom Metadata Types

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