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Oliver Jones RajkumarOliver Jones Rajkumar 

Usage of External ID in Data import Wizard

Hi All,

I need some help regarding the usage of External IDs during data import wizards for insert, update, upsert etc,. Thanks.
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Tejas KardileTejas Kardile
Hi,

External Key is an important feature given by Salesforce. It is very much helpful when we are importing some data from legacy system, means suppose the data in the old system needs to be migrated to salesforce and we want to avoid importing any duplicate records from that system into salesforce.

Please go through below salesforce article:
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewSolution?id=000002783

Thanks

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Tejas KardileTejas Kardile
Hi,

External Key is an important feature given by Salesforce. It is very much helpful when we are importing some data from legacy system, means suppose the data in the old system needs to be migrated to salesforce and we want to avoid importing any duplicate records from that system into salesforce.

Please go through below salesforce article:
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewSolution?id=000002783

Thanks
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Oliver Jones RajkumarOliver Jones Rajkumar
Thank You Tejas.