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Is there a way to conditionally render an apex:inputField only if the field exists on the running org?

I tried the following syntax but always ran into errors:

<apex:inputField value="{!CustomObject__c['optionalField__c']}" />
<apex:inputField value="{!CustomObject__c['optionalField']}"  
   rendered="{!NOT(ISNULL($ObjectType.CustomObject__c.fields['optionalField__c']))}" />
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as far as I know, you can't, inputfields are hard-bound to an sobject field which must exist in the org, else you will fail on saving. You could potentially make workarounds with normal HTML, and javascript/css, combined with extension variables, but this is quite a hassle. – PJC Jan 31 at 9:47

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I didn't find any solution for this but I think as per your requirement you should use "FieldSets" and use that FieldSet to render fields on you visualforce page.

Here you can find FieldSet information.

I am suggesting this to you because i am using this and rendering the input fields based on some condition and it is working fine.

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How come that this doesn't work for the RecordType field? – Robert Feb 2 at 2:12

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