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I have Person Accounts enabled.  I added a new field to the Account object.  There appears to be no way to define some fields only for Person Accounts and some only for Business Accounts.  When I added the field, its API name ends in  __c.  Looking at other Q&As, I would have expected it to end in __pc.  Have I missed something in the field definition process?

 

If it is true that both Person and Business Accounts share the same set of fields (ignoring for now how Contact fields are combined with Person Accounts), some of the "advantages" of using Person Accounts seem to be unclear.  Essentially one has to strip out many irrelevant fields for layouts a user will see when dealing with either Account type.
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  1. May 1, 7:37 PM

    So if you have person accounts, how do you know when to use an account field last_activity__c vs a personcontact_last_activity__pc field on a record page?  

     

     

    For example, on a person account record, how do you know which of these fields to use?

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