Description: ID of the account that’s the parent of this contact. We recommend that you update up to 50 contacts simultaneously when changing the accounts on contacts enabled for a Customer Portal or partner portal. We also recommend that you make this update after business hours.
Description: The contact’s birthdate. Filter criteria for report filters, list view filters, and SOQL queries ignore the year portion of the Birthdate field. For example, this SOQL query returns contacts with birthdays later in the year than today:
Description: Indicates the record’s clean status as compared with Data.com. Values include: Matched, Different, Acknowledged, NotFound, Inactive, Pending, SelectMatch, or Skipped. Several values for CleanStatus appear with different labels on the contact record.
Matched appears as In Sync
Acknowledged appears as Reviewed
Pending appears as Not Compared
ConnectionReceivedId
Type: reference
Properties: Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description: ID of the PartnerNetworkConnection that shared this record with your organization. This field is available if you enabled Salesforce to Salesforce.
ConnectionSentId
Type: reference
Properties: Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description: ID of the PartnerNetworkConnection that you shared this record with. This field is available if you enabled Salesforce to Salesforce. This field is supported using API versions earlier than 15.0. In all other API versions, this field’s value is null. You can use the new PartnerNetworkRecordConnection object to forward records to connections.
Description: The contact’s fax number. Label is Business Fax.
FirstCallDateTime
Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The date and time of the first call placed to the contact. This field is available in API version 48.0 and later if you enabled Sales Engagement.
FirstEmailDateTime
Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The date and time of the first email sent to the contact. This field is available in API version 48.0 and later if you enabled Sales Engagement.
Description: References the company’s ID in Data.com. If an account has a value in this field, it means that the account was imported from Data.com. If the field value is null, the account wasn’t imported from Data.com. Maximum size is 20 characters. Available in API version 22.0 and later. Label is Data.com Key.
The Jigsaw field is exposed in the API to support troubleshooting for import errors and reimporting of corrected data. Do not modify this value.
Important
LastActivityDate
Type: date
Properties: Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort
Description: Value is the most recent of either:
Due date of the most recent event logged against the record.
Due date of the most recently closed task associated with the record.
LastCURequestDate
Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The last date that a Stay-in-Touch request was sent to the contact.
LastCUUpdateDate
Type: dateTime
Properties: Filter, Nillable, Sort
Description: The last time a Stay-in-Touch update was processed for the contact.
LastName
Type: string
Properties: Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
Description: Required. Last name of the contact up to 80 characters.
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.
Description: Used with MailingLongitude to specify the precise geolocation of a mailing address. Acceptable values are numbers between –90 and 90 up to 15 decimal places. For details on geolocation compound fields, see Compound Field Considerations and Limitations.
Description: Used with MailingLatitude to specify the precise geolocation of a mailing address. Acceptable values are numbers between –180 and 180 up to 15 decimal places. For details on geolocation compound fields, see Compound Field Considerations and Limitations.
Description: If this record was deleted as the result of a merge, this field contains the ID of the record that remains. If this record was deleted for any other reason, or hasn’t been deleted, the value is null.
Description: Used with OtherLongitude to specify the precise geolocation of an alternate address. Acceptable values are numbers between –90 and 90 up to 15 decimal places. For details on geolocation compound fields, see Compound Field Considerations and Limitations.
Description: Used with OtherLatitude to specify the precise geolocation of an alternate address. Acceptable values are numbers between –180 and 180 up to 15 decimal places. For details on geolocation compound fields, see Compound Field Considerations and Limitations.
Description: The contact’s personal pronouns, reflecting their gender identity. Others can use these pronouns to refer to the contact in the third person. The entry is selected from a picklist of available values, which the administrator sets. Maximum 40 characters.
RecordTypeId
Type: reference
Properties: Create, Filter, Nillable, Update
Description: ID of the record type assigned to this object.
Description: Title of the contact, such as CEO or Vice President.
If you’re importing contact data and need to set the value for an audit field, such as CreatedDate, contact Salesforce. Audit fields are automatically updated during API operations unless you request to set these fields yourself.
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Usage
Use this object to manage individual people who are associated with an account. You can create, query, delete, or update any attachment associated with a contact.
Create or update contacts by converting a lead with the convertLead() call.
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.