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  • What is the difference between External ID and Unique ID in Salesforce?

    Posted by Anuj on June 22, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    What is the difference between External ID and Unique ID in Salesforce?

    Marziya replied 4 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Marziya

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    June 22, 2020 at 3:03 pm

    The 'Unique ID' field is a setting which prevents the same value from being used in multiple records for any specific field. External IDs are often created with the 'Unique ID' setting so that the External IDs will be unique to each record.

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