Field usage
Find Salesforce fields nobody fills in.
Field usage shows how populated each field is, so you can spot fields nobody uses. It's opt-in and aggregates counts only — it never reads field values.
Counts only, never values
Field usage measures how often a field is filled in, not what it contains. SchemaForce aggregates counts to compute a population percentage and never reads, stores, or shows the values themselves.
Enabling it
Enable field usage per connected org — it's off until you turn it on. Once enabled, results appear in two places:
A dedicated page listing fields and how populated each one is.
A usage column alongside fields in the data dictionary.
Population %
For each field you get a population % — how often it's filled in. Sorting by population makes unused and likely-removable fields easy to find: the fields sitting near 0% are the ones worth a closer look.
Why it's useful
Field usage supports cleanup and governance by surfacing fields that are barely populated, helping you decide what's safe to deprecate or remove.
Find fields that are rarely or never populated and decide what to retire.
Back deprecation decisions with population data instead of guesswork.
Pair it with change tracking
Before retiring a low-population field, check its change history and set an alert so you're notified if it changes while you decide.