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Health Cloud Developer Guide

PersonLifeEvent

Represents the life events of an individual, such as marriage, birth of a child, birthday, engagement.

Supported Calls

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

Fields

EventDate

Type: dateTime
Properties: Create, Filter, Sort, Update
Description: The date on which the life event occurred.

EventDescription

Type: textarea
Properties: Create, Nillable, Update
Description: The description of the life event.

EventLocation

Type: reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The location where the life event occurred.

This is a compound field of type Address and combines these fields: EventLocationCity, EventLocationCountry, EventLocationGeocodeAccuracy, EventLocationLatitude, EventLocationLongitude, EventLocationPostalCode, EventLocationState, and EventLocationStreet. For more information, see Address Compound Fields.

EventType

Type: picklist
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Sort
Description: The type of the life event. For example, birth, graduation, job, marriage, relocation, car, home, baby, retirement.

ExpirationDate

Type: dateTime
Properties: Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The the date when a life event expired.

ExpirationDescription

Type: textarea
Properties: Create, Nillable, Update
Description: Describes why the event expired.

IsExpired

Type: boolean
Properties: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: Indicates whether a life event has expired.
Default value: False

IsTentative

Type: boolean
Properties: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: Indicates that the exact date of the event is not known.
Default value: False

LastReferencedDate

Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The timestamp for when the current user last viewed a record related to this record.

LastViewedDate

Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The timestamp for when the current user last viewed this record. If this value is null, it’s possible that this record was referenced (LastReferencedDate) and not viewed.

Name

Type: string
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: The name of the life event.

OwnerId

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

PrimaryPersonId

Type: reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Sort
Description: ID of the person to whom the life event is related. This field cannot be updated using API.

RelatedPersonId

Type: reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The person related to the primary person in a life event involving two people, such as marriage.

SourceSystem

Type: string
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The name of the source system this record was obtained from.

SourceSystemIdentifier

Type: string
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
Description: The ID of this record in the source system.