Written by Alessandro on 2 Apr 2007 — Tagged with: Fields, IDs, Structure, URLs

Often people ask me how to get fields IDs in order to build their custom links. I thought it would have been helpful to write a post about this. Let’s see how to get a field ID for custom and standard fields.

Custom Fields

In order to get the ID of a custom field proceed this way:

• Click on Setup, then on Customize, select the Object you desire (e.g.: Leads) and click on Fields;
• Click on the name of the custom field you previously created
• Look at your browser’s address bar, you’ll see something like:
  https://emea.salesforce.com/00N20000000thpj
• The 15 digit code that appears immediately after https://emea.salesforce.com/ is the ID of that custom field; in this case the ID of the custom field I selected is 00N20000000thpj

Easy enough, isnt’t it

Standard Fields

Salesforce.com provides a list of the field’s name for its standard fields, which can be found attached to the solution “How do I create custom links?” and that I decided to paste here as a quick reference:

Questions?