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Accessing Custom Record Fields via ID with ODBC
I've created a custom record with fields and I am accessing this record and its fields via ODBC queries.
Custom Record -> Table Name
Custom Fields -> Table Columns
Custom Record: Cars (customrecord_cars)
Custom Fields: Manufacturer (customrecord_manufacturer), Year (customrecord_year), etc.
The problem I'm having is that I can only reference the data via the "Labels" of the custom fields (Cars.Manufacturer), not the "ID"s (customrecord_cars.customrecord_manufactuer).
So, if an administrator wants to change the text of a label (Manufacturer -> Make) it breaks the code we have in external systems pulling this data. We need to change all odbc query references to be
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