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Get 18 digit ID from 15 digit ID

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

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The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskConvert the 15-character ID '001A000001k9dFk' to its 18-character…+
Convert the 15-character ID '001A000001k9dFk' to its 18-character equivalent.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I export the list of contacts for our marketing campaign, make sure all contact IDs are…+
Before I export the list of contacts for our marketing campaign, make sure all contact IDs are in their 18-character format. The external marketing tool requires this longer format, and I don't want to manually convert them one by one.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI just received a spreadsheet from our partner with a list of account IDs, but they are all 15…+
I just received a spreadsheet from our partner with a list of account IDs, but they are all 15 characters, and I can't use them to update records.
I just received a spreadsheet from our partner with a list of account IDs, but they are all 15 characters, and I can't use them to update records or link them to existing data without the full 18-character ID. I'm afraid if I try to use them as is, it will fail or create errors. I need to quickly get all these IDs converted so I can process the updates by end of day. What's the best way to convert this entire column of 15-character IDs to 18 characters?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternExternal systems and integrations often provide 15-character IDs, but our internal processes…+
External systems and integrations often provide 15-character IDs, but our internal processes and other tools require 18-character IDs.
External systems and integrations often provide 15-character IDs, but our internal processes and other tools require 18-character IDs, leading to constant manual conversions and errors. This happens weekly when importing data or syncing with external platforms, wasting valuable time. What habit should we change to automatically handle the conversion of 15-character IDs to 18-character IDs when data is coming in from external sources?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Salesforce's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.