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motelymotely 

Custom ID Fields for Notes

Can anyone tell me whether it is possible for me to create a custom ID field for a notes record so that I can link it to the Custom ID field that I created for the accounts?  I want to upload notes using the data loader and I don't want to have to download the saleforce ids and match them to my custom id for the accounts. 

 

I cannot find an area in set up to customize notes.  Maybe I am missing it.

 

Thanks,

David

werewolfwerewolf
No, you can't as Notes is not a customizeable object.
motelymotely

Thanks,

 

That's kind of what I thought, but I figured I would ask.

 

I ended up downloading my accounts and linking the salsfource Ids to the notes.

SuperfellSuperfell
You don't need notes to be customizable to do this, just make sure your custom field on account that you want to use as the key is marked as an externalid, and you should then be able to insert the notes and map you're own account key in for the foreign key, instead of the salesforce.com id.