Converting 15-Character Salesforce IDs to 18 Characters

I spent the past few days baselining the data in a system that one of our Salesforce Orgs will be integrating with. Unfortunately I have to convert our Salesforce record IDs into the 18-character form because this system’s database isn’t set up to handle the case-sensitive 15-character IDs. This is something I used to do frequently as a consultant and I had various scripts in my toolbelt but I went a-searching to see what the ecosystem had created since then. And there are quite a few options! From scripts in various languages to online tools but I found all of them missing key features I needed i.e. To address these gaps I created an NPM package as well as an online ID converter. So you can also benefit from these additional (admittedly small but important to me) benefits.

London Force.com Meetup – 20 October 2011

Yip it’s that time again and boy do we have some very cool speakers this time around. The gig is at Skillsmatter at 6.30pm on 20 October and is summarised in the info below. Please don’t forget to RSVP. Of course there will the be usual beers and pizza 😉 Hope to see you there! AMJAD KHAN ON FORCE.COM ERD USING SCHEMASPY Amjad Khan will give a talk to the SafesForce user group on How to Install and run SchemaSpy on any Salesforce Org to generate an ER diagram. More details… SIMON GOODYEAR ON MAKING BETTER USE OF INTERFACES ON THE FORCE.COM PLATFORM Simon Goodyear’s talk for the SalesForce user group will give a quick overview on what interfaces are, how you can make better use of them in APEX, and what we gain from doing so. More details… TESTING ON THE FORCE.COM PLATFORM Keir Bowden gives a talk for the SalesForce …

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