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  Can we have duplicate in the External ID in salesforce?

  Posted by Anjali on August 11, 2020 at 12:28 PM

  Can we have duplicate in the External ID in salesforce?

  Ayush replied 5 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  MOHIT

  Member

  August 11, 2020 at 12:29 PM

  No.

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  Udit

  Member

  August 11, 2020 at 4:31 PM

  No, we cannot have a duplicate in External ID as it refers to the ID of the record/object of any external system.

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  Ayush

  Member

  August 12, 2020 at 9:05 AM

  No, you can use external IDs to prevent duplicate records from being created as a result of the import operation.