mtbclimber 2008-07-25T22:46:00Z If all you want is the name then you can do this today with SOQL relationships. For example: [Select Who.name from task where id = :taskid]; Polymorphic relationships like who and what on task/event or owner on queue-ownable objects can be traversed. The object that is returned is called "Name". Here's the information you can access through this traversal: (from the enterprise WSDL) Alias FirstName LastName Name Type UserRole UserRoleId hemm 2008-04-17T23:28:47Z You can get this pretty easily now. The first 3 characters of every ID tell you what object it is. Standard Objects have the same prefix in every org. Custom Objects take a little digging. If you do a describeSObjects call, you can get the Prefix parameter to officially get the prefix for an object. You can also get it easily by looking at a tab's URL. For example, the Account tab's URL is https://na1.salesforce.com/001/o/ The prefix is 001. Some common ones: Lead: 00Q Account: 001 Contact: 003 Opportunity: 006 Case: 500