can we automatically activate inactive values of multi select picklist using any process automtion or trigger?

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Giuseppe Mario Pastore · Answer

As far as I know it's not possible to access and modify inactive values of picklist throught Declarative Customization.

Using Apex, instead, you can obtain all picklist values and through isActive() method you can discriminate between active and inactive values:

you can do your logic on them through Metadata API, here you are an example:

and this is the official documentation about reactivating values:

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