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What is an External ID in Salesforce?
What is an External ID in Salesforce?
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External ID are used when we interacting with a external systems. It will act as unique identifier. We can define 3 external ID fields per object. These are the data types of fields.
- Number.
- Text.
- Email.
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An external ID is a custom field that has the External ID attribute, meaning that it contains unique record identifiers from a system outside of Salesforce. When you select this option, the Data Import Wizard detects existing records in Salesforce with external IDs that match those values in the import file.
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