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What are the variances among 15 and 18 digit record ids in Salesforce?
What are the variances among 15 and 18 digit record ids in salesforce?
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Hi Laveena,
Salesforce record Id uniquely identifies each record in salesforce. Salesforce record Id can either be 15 digit or 18 digit. 15 digit salesforce record id is case sensitive and 18 digit salesforce record id is case insensitive.
15 digit case-sensitive version is referenced in the UI and also visible in the browser
18 digit case-insensitive version which is referenced through the API -
ID fields in the Salesforce user interface contain 15-character, base-62, case-sensitive strings. Each of the 15 characters can be a numeric digit (0-9), a lowercase letter (a-z), or an uppercase letter (A-Z). Two unique IDs may only be different by a change in case.
Because there are applications like Access or excel which do not recognize that A0A6D000000RzI7 is a different ID from a0a6D000000RzI7, an 18-digit, case-safe version of the ID is returned by all API calls. The 18 character IDs have been formed by adding a suffix to each ID in the Force.com API. 18-character IDs can be safely compared for uniqueness by case-insensitive applications, and can be used in all API calls when creating, editing, or deleting data.
If you need to convert the 18-character ID to a 15-character version, truncate the last three characters. Salesforce recommends that you use the 18-character ID.
If you need to convert the 15-character ID to an 18-character version, you can use the Record ID Converter bookmarklet script here.
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