What's the difference between Parent Contact Id and Contact Id for an Opportunity?

Question

I'm setting the CustomerId of an opportunity when I'm creating it to a Contact. I was expecting the ContactId to be set to the CustomerId, but the ParentContactId is getting populated instead. What is the difference between the ParentContactId and the ContactId?

Answer 1

我没有关于此的官方文档，但我相信contactId字段保留在系统中以用于以前版本的升级方案（可能来自CRM 3.0）

这基于字段https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328229(v=crm.5).aspx

的元数据

字段IsValidForCreate和IsValidForUpdate的属性IsValidForAdvancedFind，accountId和contactId都是错误的。

另一方面，字段ParentAccountId和ParentContactId的属性相同。