relate an object in salesforce with multiple objects - salesforce

1) I have created a custom object "Hello".
Added two lookup fields to it, one is associated to Accounts and another to Leads.
2) now my custom object appears as a related list in both Account and lead
3) if i goto an account say "**Test_account**" >> i click on the new button
on the "Hello" related list.here i have redirected to a custom
visualforce page "**Welcome**".
Now I want that on my "Welcome Page" I want to display 2 fields.
If user reached this "Welcome Page" via hello related list in accounts then label on this page is set to Accounts
but
If user reached this "Welcome Page" via hello related list in leads then label on this page is set to Leads.
I dont know how to do this.
I can get the retURL in the currentpage URL but it gives me only the id.
Now I am not sure this id belongs to Accounts or Leads.
Accounts nad leads are just examples,there could be many more ojects.

By looking at the first three characters of the id, you can tell the type of object. For example, all Accounts start with '001' and all Leads start with '00Q'. You can get all the key prefixes from the DescribeSObjectResult in either Apex or the Web Services API. The API also returns this in the DescribeGlobalResult, which is handy if you want to load all the key prefixes in one call. The REST API also has the key prefix, but you'd have to traverse all the objects to get to it.

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How to write a complex reference to objects in email templates for Salesforce

I need to create a reference in an email template. for that I need to reffer a standard Contact objecect. For that I have a Custom Object Email Info, that has a lokup to standard Accounts.
So in the email I have to have value of the custom field Email_info__c from the custom object Email_info__c(the object and it's field have the same API names) while entering the Contact.
In the end both Contacts and my custom object have the lookups to Account, but not to each other, and there is no lookup from Acount, for now.
My first guess was to refer to the first child object Email info in the header of the VF template
relatedToType="Email_Info__c"
and then refer to it in the body as
{!RelatedTo.Account_r}
but then I would need a lookup from Accounts to Email Info to be able to refer deeper
{!RelatedTo.Account_r.Email_Info__r.Email_Info__c}
but, I don't think that it'll work that way or that it meets the needed criteria. Can someone share if there is an option at all to get the Email Info to Contacts through Accounts without creating a lookup on Accounts?
The task is to have a middle referred object, not a direct lookup:
It depends a bit how you are going to use this email template. What will the send be triggered from. Account? Contact? Email Info record? Will it be fired from a workflow or user will be instructed to navigate to account record and start composing the message?
If your relatedTo is really Email_Info__c then you don't have to do anything, you have all the data hidden in {!relatedTo.Id}, {!relatedTo.Name}, {!relatedTo.Email_Info__c} (you said the field name is same as object's name)
If your email starts from "Account" and you can guarantee accounts will have 1 email info record on related list - something like this might work:
<messaging:emailTemplate subject="hi stack" recipientType="Contact" relatedToType="Account">
<messaging:plainTextEmailBody >
{!relatedTo.Opportunities[0].Id} {!relatedTo.Opportunities[0].Name} {!relatedTo.Opportunities[0].StageName} {!relatedTo.Opportunities[0].CloseDate}
</messaging:plainTextEmailBody>
</messaging:emailTemplate>
from Account (relatedTo) I'm going down to the related list of Opportunities, I'm picking 1st one (at random... but if you have just 1 record it'll be fine) and display whatever I want.
If your relatedTo and recipient both have to be Contact it starts to get bit messier, normal visualforce syntax will not allow you to go "up" (from Contact to Account) and then "down" (from Account to related list of email infos)
You'd need to start with something like https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/pages_email_templates_with_apex.htm and then figure out how to pass the Id of account to it and run a query for email infos related to this account. https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/245930/pass-id-from-visualforce-email-template-to-controller might be a good start, poke me if you're stuck.

Different views for different users in reactJS

I am having a problem in ReactJS. I want to create a text editor ( with ReactQuill). So, I want different accounts for each user, such that, if one person creates a note and edits it in his account, the other person should not see this.for example this is my current stage - https://wright-text.web.app. After you create your account and login you would see a note called first note because that's the note I created. What should I do so that when you login you see no notes because you have not created a note, but when I login, I should see the note I had already created. How would I do this ??
You need to add a scope to notes endpoint so that user could only GET notes, which they have created.
You need to add query parameters in the API you are fetching. For example, if you are fetching data via a GET request, add in some specific user id that you assign to your user upon validation and then fetch data of a particular user using that id as a query parameter on your API.

Salesforce field level access determined by third variable

For the contacts object, I have a custom checkbox which represents whether the contact owner wants the contact information (email and phone) to be visible. Most of our contacts will be completely visible to everyone. However, for a few contacts, we want them to be visible but their contact information needs to be hidden to everyone except for the owner.
Is there a way to set field-level access dependent on another variable? Could you create a workflow to redirect to another page layout if the contact information is visible? If so, can you restrict objects to certain field layouts depending on whether or not you are the record owner? And would would the contact information for "hidden contacts" still show up in reports?
Redirects, custom Visualforce view page etc hacks are all nice and shiny until you realize people will be able to pull data they want via some reports, list views, Outlook integration, mobile apps etc ;)
There's no straightforward answer because field visibility is really "all or nothing" (by Profiles & Permission Sets). Owner/Role-related stuff will help you only if you'd store data in some new related objects.
Another option - Store public part in Leads (public read only for example) and sensitive part - in Contacts (private)? Some lookup to link the 2, maybe a trigger when new Contact is created and you're good to go.
Last but not least - have a look at https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/777/can-i-grant-different-field-level-security-based-on-record-ownership for some ideas.
If I understood correctly (My english...) You could create a new RecordType and a new customized page layout without this fields assigned to it, then you have to create a WFR that change the Recordtype when the cheked field becomes true.
I'm assuming that you know how you have to give permissions to this new Recordtype...etc
Hope this helps.

Show related users on user page

On the user page (/user/20 for example) I want to display a view with some related users. Each user has a field of type entity reference that points to a user. The users are related if they point to the same user.
I tried to do this using the Entity Views Attach module, but didn't succeed (although I think it should be possible using it).
Could someone give me some advice on how I could do this?
I would create an block (or eva) view using contextual filters with your reference field that takes the uid from the url (or node's author) as parent.
maybe this other post can help
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How can I set the approvers for all steps in an approval process?

I have an approval process with three steps, all of which are set to Assigned Approver = Manually Chosen. When the user submits the record for approval, I'd like to have Apex code determine who the three approvers are. However, I don't see a way to hook into the approve request submission.
If I submit the approval with Apex Using Approval.process(), I can set the initial (and only the initial) approver with ProcessSubmitRequest.setNextApproverIds(). This call leads you to believe you can specify multiple approvers since it takes an array of Ids, but the array can only have 1 element, or else runtime a error occurs.
Once I know what the first approver's response is, I can use Apex to submit her response and, again, set the immediately next approver by passing a ProcessWorkitemRequest instance to Approval.process(). An important note here is that the approver must not approve via the standard UI. Instead, they must do something that invokes the Apex code so that we can set who the next approve should be. A trigger on the object under review, or a custom button + VF page could be used to invoke the Apex.
My main question is, how can I make sure that the user does not use the standard approval buttons? They appear in the Approvals related list and on the salesforce home screen. It may be in other places as well. Again, if they use the standard submit and approve buttons, I don't have any way to hook in to set the next approver.
We ran into a similar issue a while back and solved it by creating custom lookup fields to certain users. For example, if we wanted to route an approval request up to a Director and then a VP, we added Director__c and MarketVP__c fields to the object. These fields were populated in code by climbing the role hierarchy whenever a request was submitted. Our approval process's steps then chose who the assignee would be based on the values in these fields (first step would be assigned to Related User: Director and the second step would be assigned to Related User: Market VP, etc.).
To get around the standard approval button issue (we had other reasons for hiding it), we just hid that from their homepage layouts and built our own VF page and included it in a custom homepage component. This component functioned as an inbox with links to any records that were pending the user's approval. All user interaction with the approval objects was handled through other VF pages with their own Approve and Reject buttons. I don't know if the objects you're submitting to the approval process even use VF pages, so this may not be feasible for your situation.
A lot of customization for something that shouldn't need it, I know. Might not be the answer you're looking for, but hopefully it's some food for thought.

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