Twin Fields in CPQ and Salesforce

Twin field is a new term that introduced by CPQ and it has some similarity to formula field in salesforce.

If you are coming from programming background , definitely you have heard about auto-mapper which basically maps to fields between two objects if the field name and type are the same.

If you don't have programming background, nothing to worry about as it is simple.Basically the requirement is mapping two fields in two objects if the name and type are exactly the same.

CPQ Twin Fields

To give you an example , consider you like to have access to a field you created or existed in Product object in Quote Line. Based on the above, auto mapping is available between these two objects, and if you have a field called "MyField__c" on product as a text or picklist  that wanted to map to Quote line , go to Quote line object and create exactly the same field name "MyField__c" with text or picklist, and that's it.

Now if you set some value to that field in product the the value automatically will be available on  Quote line, this value can be used later for some filtering or ...