Salesforce.com Id attribute seems to have a 15 and 18 character value, whats the difference?

Question

When using the SOAP API to work with salesforce.com (SFDC) it seems that the primary key in the underlying database is Id. Well there seems to be two representations of this va

Answer 1

I know this is an old post, but just in case it is useful to someone...

If you want to do ad-hoc conversions of Id's, rather than programatically, then this Chrome extension makes it easy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sf-15-to-18/cogllpmaoflgaekieefhmglbpgdgmoeg

FYI - I'm the developer. Please use the feedback form on the app if you'd like to suggest any improvements or additional functionality.

Thanks!