[OpenFn/docs] Upsert using an auto-number field in Salesforce? (#92)

Job Writing
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Hey Kevin,

It looks like you can’t use auto-number fields as External ID’s for upserts: https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000004514&language=en_US&type=1 and https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=906F00000009CUSIA2.

Would you actually prefer to run an update? (Feels like upsert isn’t the right operation for an auto-number that’s generated in SF… what is the value you’re using in the cases that you want to insert new records?)

Taylor

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To tie this up for the record: When connecting to Salesforce, update(…) requires a Salesforce ID and upsert(…) cannot be performed using an “auto-number” field as the external ID to upsert on.

TD