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Hal9000 SOQL error with Left function using apex data loader command line
I'm using "Apex Data Loader 14" in batch process mode to export data. I found that IDs are 18 characters long in Data Loader exports and 15 characters long in Salesforce.com report exports. Apparently, the Data Loader adds on a 3-digit "External ID".
I'm trying to strip off these extra 3 characters using the SOQL Left function. But I get this error message:
6500 [csvContactExtract] ERROR com.salesforce.lexiloader.action.progress.NihilistProgressAdapter -
Select Left(Id,15),FirstName,LastName,Title
^
ERROR at Row:1:Column:12
expecting "from", found ''
I am attaching the code for the bean from the process-conf.xml.
It worked fine until I added the Left function.
Can anyone tell me how I can get the Left function to work?
Thanks!
<bean id="csvAccountExtractProcess"
class="com.salesforce.lexiloader.process.ProcessRunner"
singleton="false">
<description>csvAccountExtract job gets account info from salesforce and saves info into a CSV file."</description>
<property name="name" value="csvAccountExtract"/>
<property name="configOverrideMap">
<map>
<entry key="sfdc.debugMessages" value="false"/>
<entry key="sfdc.debugMessagesFile" value="c:\dataloader\samples\status\sfdcSoapTrace.log"/>
<entry key="sfdc.endpoint" value="https://www.salesforce.com"/>
<entry key="sfdc.username" value="me@you.com"/>
<!-- password specified below is invalid, please generate one using the encrypt.bat utility -->
<entry key="sfdc.password" value="9999999999999"/>
<entry key="sfdc.timeoutSecs" value="600"/>
<entry key="sfdc.loadBatchSize" value="200"/>
<entry key="sfdc.entity" value="Account"/>
<entry key="sfdc.extractionRequestSize" value="500"/>
<entry key="sfdc.extractionSOQL" value="Select Left(Id,15),Account__c,Type,Name,Acc__c,Acc_On_Hold__c,Status_Date_Change__c FROM Account"/>
<entry key="process.operation" value="extract"/>
<entry key="process.mappingFile" value="R:\SF_data_exchange\conf\accountExtractMap.sdl"/>
<entry key="dataAccess.type" value="csvWrite"/>
<entry key="dataAccess.name" value="R:\SF_data_exchange\accounts.csv"/>
</map>
</property>
</bean>
Oops! My bad.
So, how can I remove the 3 trailing characters in that context?
It sounds like you are looking for the 15-character version of the record Id. You could either apply that logic after you extract the data from salesforce.com. Or you could create a formula field which supports the LEFT function to store the 15-character version of the record Id.