This use case explains the display name in custom objects and demonstrates how to create display names in the Zuora UI.

The display name can be used as a user-friendly name for a custom object linked to other custom objects.

For example, suppose that you have created two custom object definitions named "Vehicle" and "Tire Manufacturer" in your tenant. The Vehicle object contains a relationship-type field Tire linking to the Tire Manufacturer object. You can enable the display name for the Tire Manufacturer object by creating a text-type field Manufacturer Name . When creating custom object records for the Vehicle object, real manufacturer names can be recorded as values for the Tire field, instead of meaningless 36-character record IDs.

To create the display name, complete the following steps when creating or editing a custom object definition:

• Create a text-type custom field definition.

• Ensure none of the format checkboxes (UUID or URL) is selected.

• Select the Display Name checkbox.

Display names have the following limitations:

• Each custom object definition can have at most one field as the display name.

• Only text-type fields with no format (such as UUID or URL) can be used as display names.