IDs for Related Salesforce Objects
Informatica Cloud identifies records of a Salesforce object based on one of the following types of IDs:
- •Salesforce ID
Salesforce generates an ID for each new record in a Salesforce object.
- • External ID
You can create a custom external ID field in the Salesforce object to identify records in the object. You might create an external ID to use the ID generated from a third-party application to identify records in the Salesforce object. You can use one or more external IDs to uniquely identify records in each Salesforce object.
If you create a Data Synchronization task that writes to a Salesforce target, the source must provide either the Salesforce IDs or the external IDs for the records in the Salesforce target object and applicable related objects. A related object is an object that is related to another object based on a relationship defined in Salesforce. The Data Synchronization task uses the Salesforce ID or external ID to update changes to related objects.
If the source in a task contains external IDs for Salesforce objects, you must specify the external IDs for all related objects when you create the Salesforce target for the task. If you do not specify the external ID, Informatica Cloud requires the Salesforce ID to identify records in each related object.
For more information about creating and using Salesforce external IDs, see the Informatica Cloud Community article, "
Using External IDs and Related Objects in Informatica Cloud".