topic Re: GUID in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/guid/m-p/2686236#M621251 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Guid is abbreviation of Geographically Unique ID. It is a 32 char field available in almost all master and transaction data tables in CRM . It's value identifies that the record is unique and no such record exists anywhere in the CRM system. However please note that Customizing tables do not have a Guid where the key is maintained by short text. I hope this helps</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:24:11 GMT Former Member 2007-08-12T15:24:11Z GUID https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/guid/m-p/2686234#M621249 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is GUID????</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:11:30 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/guid/m-p/2686234#M621249 Former Member 2007-08-12T15:11:30Z Re: GUID https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/guid/m-p/2686235#M621250 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The GUID is used as a key. They use a GUID in CRM because of its uniqueness and to have a central numbering instance in the server: Esp. because of the mobile sales scenario where data is created in different sites and thus numbering them in order would be very difficult to ascertain they assign GUIDs first and number them then later in the server.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:20:57 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/guid/m-p/2686235#M621250 Former Member 2007-08-12T15:20:57Z Re: GUID https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/guid/m-p/2686236#M621251 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Guid is abbreviation of Geographically Unique ID. It is a 32 char field available in almost all master and transaction data tables in CRM . It's value identifies that the record is unique and no such record exists anywhere in the CRM system. However please note that Customizing tables do not have a Guid where the key is maintained by short text. I hope this helps</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:24:11 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/guid/m-p/2686236#M621251 Former Member 2007-08-12T15:24:11Z