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Internal ID = External identifier
January 12, 2011, 04:00:27 pm
I'm sorry if this question has been asked before but I can't find the answer anywhere.
Is there away to make the Internal ID = the External Identifier?
Is this something I will need to do via a mysql command or some other way?

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Re: Internal ID = External identifier
January 12, 2011, 08:17:24 pm

the internal id is an auto incremented field managed by mysql, as such i dont think we'd recommend changing the value

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Re: Internal ID = External identifier
February 05, 2011, 10:20:07 am
I'm not sure what purpose this action would serve, but you would do this through MySQL by running a direct query on the database.  Always make a backup.

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update civicrm_contact set external_id = id;

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