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Asked: 2026-06-14T10:00:32+00:00

We’re using Bulk Api to upsert records for both Custom and Standard Salesforce Objects.

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We’re using Bulk Api to upsert records for both Custom and Standard Salesforce Objects. Its working fine for custom objects but when We’re trying to perform Upsert operation on a Standard Salesforce Object say: Account, the error of specifies Invalid External ID specified as:

[AsyncApiException exceptionCode=’InvalidJob’
exceptionMessage=’Field name provided, Name does not match an External
ID, Salesforce Id, or indexed field for Account’ ]

We’re providing Name as an external ID through java code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Account.Name is not an external Id field! And neither is AccountNumber for that matter. I guess you’re confused because it can be used as match field for de-duplication in “import my accounts & contacts” etc?

    Here are my results, I don’t think you’ll get different ones:

    Schema.DescribeFieldResult f = Account.Name.getDescribe();
System.debug(f.isExternalID());  // false
System.debug(f.isUnique());      // false
System.debug(f.isIdLookup());    // false

    You’ll need to create your own Ext. Id. field if you want to use it in upserts (and fill it with data). In my org we have custom Account_Number__c…

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