Contact Merge needs to update Contact Id for Role field on Donation

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Take two contact records to be merged.  The "losing" contact has the 
donations on it.
2. Merge the two records retaining the contact that did not have the donation.
3. The donation moves to the new contact, contact role gets changed properly 
but the Contact Id Role field does not get updated to the "winning" contacts ID.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
See above

What version of the packages are you using?
Contacts & Organizations 2.0
Households 2.0.8

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dwhi...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2011 at 12:07

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Is the role not being updated causing an issue? Or is the issue that the ID for 
the role is not being updated? 

That field should only be referenced during the initial creation of the 
opportunity, after that, it shouldn't be relied on for accurate information. 
(Since you can theoretically change the Opportunity Contact Role to a different 
Contact, and it wouldn't be updated to reflect that).  

Either way, I'll put the bugfix in the next C&O release, just curious about the 
use-case. 

Original comment by kbro...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2011 at 10:06

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: NonPatch, Package-ContactsAndOrgs, Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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I did not have a specific use case but I noticed it was not updated after a 
merge and thought I would post it as a bug in case someone did use that in some 
manner then it would be incorrect.

Original comment by dwhi...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2011 at 2:12

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It is the NPSP custom Contact ID Role field on the Opportunity object that is 
not being updated.  The contact role is updated correctly.

Original comment by dwhi...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2011 at 2:14

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Understood - I can patch it for the next release, should be in the early fall. 
Thanks for submitting!

Original comment by kbro...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2011 at 2:40

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Just dug through the code on this, its not something we're going to be able to 
support. The Contact Merge functionality uses SFDC Apex Merge command, that 
automates the reparenting of children records, including Opportunities. That's 
a good thing, as we don't need to issue updates for each type of record (Opps, 
Tasks, etc.) OTOH, it also means we can't control the reparents, and since the 
ID for Role field is a standard text field and not a Contact lookup, there's no 
way to indicate it needs update without a major rearchitecting. 

I'm going to close the issue as WontFix - Thank you for submitting though!

Original comment by kbro...@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2011 at 7:10

• Changed state: WontFix