Record Identifier

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A Record Identifier consists of one or more fields that are displayed when a record has been selected. (When multiple fields are specified, their values are separated by hyphens and displayed as the value of a Lookup field.)

About Record Identifiers

Ideally, a Record Identifier unique label that distinguishes one record from another (although it need not be). These labels can be seen in Views and Records. If the App Center is not enabled, then the record_id field is the only field used for a Record Identifier. Otherwise:

When a new object is created, the first three fields defined in the object are used to form the default Record Identifier. The Record Identifier can be changed at any time.

Example

In this example, the Customer object specifies the customer_name field might as the Record Identifier. When the customer has been selected in a Lookup, the customer_name field is displayed to indicate which record was chosen.

Fields Available for Use as Record Identifiers

In general, fields that are available for use as record identifiers resolve to a single alphanumeric value of moderate size. With few exceptions, fields of these types are not available for use:

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