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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › Can I create child records referencing the External ID and not the Account ID?

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      Can I create child records referencing the External ID and not the Account ID?

      Posted by Ravi on April 30, 2016 at 2:30 PM

      The Account has an External ID which is also present in the data I'm importing. Can I create child records referencing the External ID and not the Account ID?

      Himanshu replied 10 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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    • Himanshu

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      April 30, 2016 at 3:23 PM

      Hi Ravi,
      Yes, using the data loader you can look up to another record based on an external ID. However, note that the ID should be flagged as unique too.

      This would also be doable via the API.

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