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  1. Preface
  2. Data integration tasks
  3. Mapping tasks
  4. Dynamic mapping tasks
  5. Synchronization tasks
  6. Data transfer tasks
  7. Replication tasks
  8. Masking tasks
  9. Masking rules
  10. PowerCenter tasks

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Salesforce targets and IDs for related objects

Salesforce targets and IDs for related objects

Data Integration
 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 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. To configure external IDs for related Salesforce objects, use
Related Objects
 to select the external ID for each applicable related object. A related object is an object that is related to another object based on a relationship defined in Salesforce. The 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,
Data Integration
 requires the Salesforce ID to identify records in each related object.
For more information about creating and using Salesforce external IDs, see the
Data Integration
 Community article, "Using External IDs and Related Objects in Informatica Cloud".
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