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Greg Grinberg
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I have a custom object that looks up to Contact. On the Person Account Detail page, I have a custom button on the related list for this custom object. In production, this button references, {!Contact.ID} which pulls the Contact ID of the Person Account. However

However, in my Spring '13 sandbox, this no longer seems to work. The merge field is returning a blank value. I tried {!Account.PersonContactID}, but this field is not accessible so I cannot save the button. Also {!Account.ID} will not work, as I am using this button to populate the Contact lookup on my custom object. Did

Did something change in Spring 13 that caused this functionality to stop working?

I have a custom object that looks up to Contact. On the Person Account Detail page, I have a custom button on the related list for this custom object. In production, this button references, {!Contact.ID} which pulls the Contact ID of the Person Account. However, in my Spring '13 sandbox, this no longer seems to work. The merge field is returning a blank value. I tried {!Account.PersonContactID}, but this field is not accessible so I cannot save the button. Also {!Account.ID} will not work, as I am using this button to populate the Contact lookup on my custom object. Did something change in Spring 13 that caused this functionality to stop working?

I have a custom object that looks up to Contact. On the Person Account Detail page, I have a custom button on the related list for this custom object. In production, this button references {!Contact.ID} which pulls the Contact ID of the Person Account.

However, in my Spring '13 sandbox, this no longer seems to work. The merge field is returning a blank value. I tried {!Account.PersonContactID} but this field is not accessible so I cannot save the button. Also {!Account.ID} will not work as I am using this button to populate the Contact lookup on my custom object.

Did something change in Spring 13 that caused this functionality to stop working?

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Person Account Contact ID in Spring 13

I have a custom object that looks up to Contact. On the Person Account Detail page, I have a custom button on the related list for this custom object. In production, this button references, {!Contact.ID} which pulls the Contact ID of the Person Account. However, in my Spring '13 sandbox, this no longer seems to work. The merge field is returning a blank value. I tried {!Account.PersonContactID}, but this field is not accessible so I cannot save the button. Also {!Account.ID} will not work, as I am using this button to populate the Contact lookup on my custom object. Did something change in Spring 13 that caused this functionality to stop working?