I have been trying to use custom save button on contract object . where it should function the standard save functionality. I have tried by using java script where in script i have mentioned end point url . but unable to function clearly.
Any perfect code for it.
you could go to object page and then buttons area. in here you can create a button to point it to anywhere you want.
then go to your layout and replace save button with the new one.
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The functionality I have written works, this is for a test method.
In apex test code, I create a StandardController then a controller extension and invoke a method on that controller extension which returns a PageReference to a custom object's standard edit page. I want to change field values on that edit page and invoke the Save method/button, is this possible and how?
In advance, thanks.
No, you cannot change values in a standard edit screen from within a test method, nor do you need to. The correct way to test logic that is executed after saving on a standard edit screen is to construct an instance of a new record, populate the fields, and insert it into the database.
Under definition tree, I can attach event to open Data Editor for certain element.
However, I have no idea how to trigger the workflow to open the Editor for a given id.
I have a custom action URL which point to a custom ASPX (List of businesses about 50,000) in the console.
Now I want to trigger call the default data editor from the custom ASPX. Is that possible.
Yes you can. There is a few steps you need to take, but then you can basically mimic all console behaviors from your own aspx-page.
First of all you need to include the necessary C1 Console javascript frameworks on your page. Do that by calling ScriptLoader.Render("sub") and write the result on your page. You would also need to include this javascript on your page https://github.com/burningice2866/CompositeC1Contrib/blob/master/Teasers/Package/content/Composite/InstalledPackages/CompositeC1Contrib.Teasers/teaserConsoleFunctions.js - its some wrapper methods which are able to construct the javascript objects needed to call C1's webservice methods.
When that is setup you can trigger opening a Edit Workflow by calling the executeAction javascript method via a link containing the necessary ActionToken and EntityToken like this https://github.com/burningice2866/CompositeC1Contrib/blob/master/Teasers/Web/UI/TeaserHtmlHelper.cs#L65.
Its important to understand that everything in the C1 Console in based on these tokens. You don't edit something based on its id but always based on the EntityToken the something is represented by.
And what you want to do, whether its edit something or delete it, that thing you want to do is represented by an ActionToken. So to be able to edit something, you need an EntityToken for that something and a ActionToken for the Data Editor.
When a user 'Saves' a Contact (for example), whether it's new or just updated, I need to:
Do an external callout using one of the Contact field values as a lookup
Display the results of the callout, so the user can make a selection
Update the Contact based on the user's selection display the updated Contact
I have found two aproaches, but have reached a point in both that I need to resolve.
Trigger Based Method
In the 'after' trigger pass the lookup string to a callback.
Update the Contact with the selection
Issues
How do you pass the lookup string or results to a visualforce page to display the lookup results?
When the user makes the selection and the update has been done, how do I move back to the updated contact?
Override Base Method
I found a discussion here that seems to suggests using overriding & redirection to someone asking about 'Edit'. I think this could also be done with the 'Save' button.
Issue
This is meant to be a deployable sollution, so I think that the override has to be set in code (I'm using the IDE) and not via Setup (or am I wrong?). I can't find out if this is possible or how to do it
Sorry for detailed question. Didn't want to just ask the wrong question (i.e. assume I know the best approach).
Thanks...
For the trigger-based method, you cannot change the built-in Save functionality, but (per your second solution) you can override the Edit button and recreate the Edit page with Visualforce, which would give you full control over the Save button and how you handle the callout and redirecting.
The release notes for Spring '10 indicate that standard-button overrides are now available for packaging, as they can be created through the Metadata API.
We have a custom object say Sales form. On edit apge of customer object we need to add a button Save and Add Product(similar to One we can have on Opportunity page). User forget to add Product/SKU after saving the sales form
New Button(Save and Add product), will save the sales-form first and then depends on record type will open the related list(child object).
Say a Sales form is for Custom Program, after save,. it will open up Custom Program relate list.
If Record type is of Price Change Notification it willl open up related list of SKU detail..
Is this possible, please adivse, we have 9-10 different record type, and we don't want to re-write the application with visualforce and all customization. Re-writing with Visualforce page has some pitfalls.
As far as I'm aware, you can't replace the Save button as it's part of the Edit page and not the standard layout, so to achieve this with one button you'd need to write a custom visualforce page, this need not be complicated though — a simple custom controller which uses a standardController for management of the record would suffice.
You would call Save on the StandardController and then return a different page redirect based on the record type, the page itself would pretty much only consist of an <apex:detail> tag. If you want more details I can provide more.
If you really don't want to write any custom code or pages then you'll need to do this as a two step process, i.e. use the standard page and then have a custom "Continue" button which takes the user onto a custom URL based on the record type. I've just created a contrived version of this by doing the following:
1 - Define a custom formula field on the object, this should be of type text and can use a CASE() statement to determine the URL which the user will be taken to when hitting the button (note that this was made just for the sake of an example so it forwards to the accounts standard page for the record type 'Friend' and contacts page for 'Foe').
CASE($RecordType.DeveloperName, 'Friend', '../001/o', 'Foe', '../003/o', '')
Note the reason I use a formula field here instead of the doing this in the custom button is that for some reason you can't seem
access the record types by name when defining a custom button.
2 - Define a custom button for the object called "Continue" or something similar that makes sense for you. For my example I just used the Contact object, so I referenced the custom field on my record and specified the options shown here:
3 - Customise the page layouts used by your record types to include this new button and you should be done!
I cannot find where in the salesforce.com UI I can add a trigger on a file attachment. I can find triggers on almost everything else, but attachment seems to be missing from the list (even when I view source on the page and search it. Does anyone know WHERE I can put this trigger in?
There is no way to do it directly as Attachment is one of those "lesser" objects that salesforce really gets "protective" about in a random and biased way. The only "legit" way to do it is to use some external build&deploy tools such as Force.com IDE.
If however you are not a stranger to undocumented 'hacks' do the following. Go to any object's trigger list and click create new. In the URL locate entity query string parameter (e.g. entity=Case) and change it to Attachment (entity=Attachment) and press Enter. Newl loaded screen will accept Attachment trigger.
Using Eclipse (Force.com IDE plug-in), right-click on your project & select "New" > "Apex Trigger". In the dialogue window that pops up, there is an "Object" dropdown / picklist, choose the object you want from this list - "Note" or "Attachment" etc. - then choose the "events" you want to trigger to execute on.
NOTE: a best practice is only one (1) trigger per object since you cannot guarantee the order in which multiple triggers on the same object will execute.
Have you tried creating the trigger from, force.com IDE??
In my opinion it should be possible from there.
To write a trigger for attachment, there is no straight way to do it but you can do it.
By creating a trigger on other object for example create a trigger in contact object then the url of the current page shows
"https://ap1.salesforce.com/........./&entity=Contact" you have to change "entity=Attachment"
then the trigger will be created for attachment object.