I am trying to describe a field and get the default value but the following always outputs null.  Schema.DescribeFieldResult dfr = Account.SLASerialNumber__c.getDescribe(); system.debug('res '+dfr.getdefaultvalue()); // null   What I am missing ?
So in the documentation for the DescribeFieldResult.getDefaultValue , it says:     Returns the default value for this field   There is a related method called getDefaultValueFormula whose description reads:     Returns the default value specified for this field if a formula is not used.   What is the difference between these methods? I have a field with a default value. When I call getDefaultValue, I get null. When I call getDefaultValueFormula, I get back "This is the default value" (with quotes). I don't understand why getDefaultValue returns null.
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