MedicinalIngredient

MedicinalIngredient is a child object of Medication that represents substances or drugs that are used as ingredients in the medication. This object is available in API version 52.0 and later.

Supported Calls

create(), delete(), describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search(), undelete(), update(), upsert()

Fields

IngredientId

Type: Polymorphic reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: The substance that’s used as an ingredient in the medication. If the ingredient is another medication or drug, reference a Medication record. If the ingredient is not a medication, reference a code set bundle record with the system-defined code that represents the ingredient.
Referenced Objects: Medication, CodeSetBundle

IsActive

Type: boolean
Properties: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: Indicates whether the ingredient is an active ingredient in the medication. An active ingredient affects the therapeutic action of the medication.
Default value: false

LastReferencedDate

Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The most recent date on which a user referenced this record.

LastViewedDate

Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The most recent date on which a user viewed this record.

Name

Type: string
Properties: Autonumber, Defaulted on create, Filter, idLookup, Sort
Description: The system-generated name of the record.

OwnerId

Type: Polymorphic reference
Properties: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: The owner of the record.
Referenced Objects: Group, User

ParentRecordId

Type: reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: The medication that this ingredient is a part of.

This is a relationship field.
Referenced Objects: Medication

StrengthDenominator

Type: double
Properties: Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The denominator value of the ingredient’s strength or quantity in the medication.

StrengthDenominatorUnitId

Type: reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The unit of StrengthDenominator
Referenced Objects: UnitOfMeasure

StrengthNumerator

Type: double
Properties: Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The numerator value of the ingredient’s strength or quantity in the medication.

StrengthNumeratorUnitId

Type: reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The unit of StrengthNumerator

This is a relationship field.
Refers To: UnitOfMeasure

Usage

Ingredients are added to a medication record by creating MedicinalIngredient records to represent each ingredient, and then referencing the medication record using the ParentRecordId field in all the MedicinalIngredient records.

Associated Objects

This object has the following associated objects. If the API version isn’t specified, they’re available in the same API versions as this object. Otherwise, they’re available in the specified API version and later.

MedicinalIngredientChangeEvent (API Version 62.0): Change events are available for the object.
MedicinalIngredientFeed: Feed tracking is available for the object.
MedicinalIngredientHistory: History is available for tracked fields of the object.
MedicinalIngredientShare: Sharing is available for the object.