provided external id field does not exist or is not accessible: notanid

Salesforce Platform REST API · GET /services/data/{version}/sobjects/{object}/{id} · HTTP 404 NOT_FOUND

Status: ✅ verified:server:sandbox · first seen 2026-10-24 · last confirmed 2026-10-27 · 128 confirmations from 2 vantages

A record path whose last segment is not an id (…/sobjects/Account/notanid) is read as an external ID field name: HTTP 404 "Provided external ID field does not exist or is not accessible: notanid".

What to do

1. No client-side fix known (by design).

Dimensions

env: sandbox · plan: any · region: any · account_state: developer_edition

Evidence

Probe af:salesforce:probe:non-id-read-as-external-id (declarative, source)

Observations: none from reporters yet.

Machine access

curl -s https://apifacts.dev/v0/check \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"target":{"method":"GET","url":"https://login.salesforce.com/services/data/{version}/sobjects/{object}/{id}"},"error":{"status":404,"body_excerpt":"provided external id field does not exist or is not accessible: notanid"}}'

YAML: facts/salesforce/non-id-path-read-as-external-id.yaml

Data: CC BY 4.0 · apifacts registry · This page is generated; edit the YAML, not the page.