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Hello all. Using Act! 2005, and am very new with it. I assume that Act! must store a unique contact id somewhere for each contact record. Is there a way to pull this information into the GUI so that a user can see it and reference it?
Thanks, I've searched through the other threads and can't find an answer. Thanks!
As Roy mentions, the Contact ID, or GUID, is a "system field", and is not available to the endu user. And as he mentions, its a long number, not usually of much use to an end user.
You'll find full information about Copy System Field at www.tnhg.com/prod9/index.html and www.tnhg.com/prod7/index.html, depending on which version of ACT! you are running.
The contact unique ID field can be used in reports and can be accessed through the SDK but there isn't any provision for viewing that field in the layout. It's a vary large binary number and would not be particularly useful for reference.
As Roy mentions, the Contact ID, or GUID, is a "system field", and is not available to the endu user. And as he mentions, its a long number, not usually of much use to an end user.
You'll find full information about Copy System Field at www.tnhg.com/prod9/index.html and www.tnhg.com/prod7/index.html, depending on which version of ACT! you are running.
Instead of using the GUID, is there anyway that ACT can auto generate a separate or smaller number? I was looking at adding a "reference number" that people could quote and be searched for easily in ACT?
Just one other question, does the Contact ID/GUID go in seqeuence "xxxxx1, xxxxx2..etc" in a database or how does the ID get generated?
It doesn't go in sequence. It uses a comples algorithm to create a unique binary number.
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