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sdavidow9sdavidow9 

Is a RecordId unique across all orgs, or just it's org?

Hi, we are merging 2 SFDC orgs and we are trying to confirm if a Record Id is unique only within it's own org, or unique across the platform?

 

We will probably con-catinate a char to the id while loading to it to a "legacyId" field, but not sure this is necessary.  I always thought these were GUIDs to the platform, but there is some question to the trueth of that on my team.

 

thanks.

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Andy BoettcherAndy Boettcher

Wait - I take that back.  On another page - they say that Ids ARE unique across all TENANTS.

 

Link

 

If I were you guys - I would plan for them to be non-unique just to cover your bases.

 

-Andy

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Andy BoettcherAndy Boettcher

Ids are unique to your object / org - not platform-wide.

 

Taken from SF documentation:

"With rare exceptions, all objects in the API have a field of type ID that is named Id and contains a unique identifier for each record in the object."

 

-Andy
Andy BoettcherAndy Boettcher

Wait - I take that back.  On another page - they say that Ids ARE unique across all TENANTS.

 

Link

 

If I were you guys - I would plan for them to be non-unique just to cover your bases.

 

-Andy

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sdavidow9sdavidow9

Thanks, yeah...I think we are going the route of assuming them NOT platform wide unique, but the underlining "Yeah, they are..." approach :)

 

Thanks.