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Cate Twohill (WGBH) asked in #Data Management
Jan 6, 2014, 8:35 PM

We have a custom Auto Number field in our Contact object. It was created after the object already had 350 records in it and the field creator did not opt to Generate Auto Number for existing records. How can we get unique values into this field now?

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  1. David K. Liu (Google)
    Jan 7, 2014, 2:22 AM
    You can use a mass update tool too like Bill was alluding to earlier:

     

    https://dataloader.io/

     

    These tools simply upload data into Salesforce from any spreadsheet. 

     

    As Bill mentioned, if there's a lot of data associated with these records (like Tasks or other custom objects), then it'll be slightly more difficult re-associating these to the new Contacts, but not impossible!

     

    An experienced admin could do this entire project in under an hour, so multiply that by however much you like for a newbie!
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