Written by Alessandro on Thursday 11 January 2007, tagged with: Structure, URLs. 10 comments so far.

UPDATE: Public apologies to Mike Schinkel, this post was inspired by Mike’s “URL Structure“. I decided to write a similar post to include the full list of known instances, mine wasn’t certainly a way to get credit for something you wrote first Mike! Sorry!

Finally found the structure to delete a record in SF, adding it below. Eoin

Here’s a quick introduction to understand the structure of all the URLs in Salesforce:

Instances

Salesforce’s organizations reside on multiple instances, to find out what instance you’re on, once you logged into Salesforce, have a look at the address bar; you’ll notice the URL starts with something like:

ssl – North America #0 (aka na0)
na1 – North America #1
na2 – North America #2
na3 – North America #3
na4 – North America #4
na5 – North America #5
emea – Europe, Middle East, Africa
ap – Asia, Pacific
tapp0 – Sandbox #0
tapp1 – Sandbox #1

https://xyz.salesforce.com

where xyz is the name of the instance your organization is on.

Objects’ specific URLs

Every Salesforce’s object has it’s specific URL, here are listed the links to the standard objects:

Basic action URLs

Use the following URLs to perform the listed operations on a specific object. Note this is fundamental to then understand how to create internal custom links.

Object’s overview page
https://[instance].salesforce.com/[object]/o
ie: https://emea.salesforce.com/500/o

Create a new record
https://[instance].salesforce.com/[object]/e?retURL=/[object_code]/o
ie: https://emea.salesforce.com/500/e?retURL=/500/o

Edit a record
https://[instance].salesforce.com/[object]/[recordID]/e?retURL=[recordID]
ie: https://emea.salesforce.com/50020000000chRD/e?retURL=/50020000000chRD

Clone a record
https://[instance].salesforce.com/[object]/[recordID]/e?retURL=[recordID]&clone=1

Delete a record
https://[instance].salesforce.com/setup/own/deleteredirect.jsp?delID=[recordID]

where:

• [instance] is the instance’s name your organization resides on;
• [object] is the object’s code;
• [recordID] is the ID of the record itself.