I have shared the Enterprise WSDL to an external System to create contact. In Contact , I have two custom field Country and State. These field are lookup to object called Location.
In order to create Contact , external system has to put the Salesforce ID in Country and state lookup. But, external System does not have these SF id and they don't want to query as well. It's something needs to be handled from SFDC side.
Please advice how can I manage this.
If the fields need to be populated and the external service will not populate them your only recourse would be to add a trigger and populate the fields yourself.
This would require you to have access to the information needed to get the correct values from each object. I am assuming that for country the external service can populate a country for you on the contact object, same with state?
Something like this mock up
trigger populate_fields on Contact(before insert){
Map<String,ID> ctry = New Map<String,ID>();
for(Contact c : trigger.new){
if(c.Country != null)
ctry.put(c.Country,null);
}
for(Country__c c : [Select ID From Country__c Where Name IN :ctry.keySet()]){
ctry.put(c.name,c.id);
}
for(Contact c : trigger.new){
c.Country__c = ctry.get(c.Country);
if(c.Country__c == null)
c.addError('Unable to find associated Country');
}
}
