CONTACTID Retrievable from zoho.crm.create("contacts", contactinfo)

CONTACTID Retrievable from zoho.crm.create("contacts", contactinfo)

Hi all,

I think I read somewhere that the CONTACTID for a CRM record is not immediately retrievable on creation of a CRM record within Creator...as per this example.

  1. contactinfo = { "Last Name" : input.Last_Name, "First Name" : input.First_Name, "Mobile" : input.Phone_Mobile, "Campaign Source" : "The Website", "Description" : input.How_did_you_heard_about_us, "Email" : input.Email_Id };
  2. CRMResp = zoho.crm.create("Contacts", contactinfo );

But I do notice, if exposing the contents of the string CRMRestp....in this way

info "CrmResp Return String is " + CRMResp;

That the CONTACTID field is actually contained in this string...shown here...

CrmResp Return String is Record(s) added successfully 74826000000256011 2011-01-01 20:21:34 2011-01-01 20:21:34

I understand the number  74826000000256011 is the CONTACTID...clearly it is 'squashed up' against two date and time fields....

Is it possible or advisable to extract this value in a clean way? 

If I can do this, it will save me having to do a searchRecords call to retrieve a CRM record that I have just created.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards, 

Liam.