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N@niN@ni 

External id ?????????????

How we can use External id in our organization, please give me one example??????????? 

Rahul_sgRahul_sg
on the custom fields, you can set this by checking the external Id flag.

you may refer : http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2010/05/07/using-exernal-id-fields-in-salesforce/ for details
TrimbleAgTrimbleAg

We use external ID's to store other intergrated systems IDs in.

 

Such as an Oracle ID, then the middle ware will query this number on, lets say the account in SFDC to detemine if it exsist to possible perfore an update or push over contract info, if this ID is not found it will then create the account along with the contract. Tons of uses, typically used when interagrating external systems as far as I know.

 

PB
sandeep@Salesforcesandeep@Salesforce

There are many helps are available some useful links as below

http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/1259/how-do-you-use-an-external-id-in-the-import-wizard-to-import-child-objects-of-a

 

http://na14.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/faq_import_general_what_is_an_external.htm

 

http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2010/05/07/using-exernal-id-fields-in-salesforce/