Decoding Salesforce

Decoding Salesforce

The hows and whys of Salesforce.com

Posts Tagged ‘URLs’

How to obtain a field ID

Often people ask me how to get fields IDs in order to build their custom links. I thought it would have been helpful to write a post about this. Let's see how to get a field ID for custom and standard fields. Custom Fields In order to get the ID of a custom field proceed this way: Click on Setup, then on Customize, select the Object you desire (e.g.: Leads) and ...

Play with Custom Links: Part 2

In my last post I explained how to build a simple web custom link; more complex custom links can be used to pass data from your Salesforce records, user information, or company information to another website or application; it can also be used to pass variables from one Salesforce object to another. Let's see how to create a custom link to pass fields values from a Salesforce object to ...

Salesforce’s URL Structure

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 ...

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