Visualforce: selectList filterId not displaying all Standard Controller View List

Question

I am building a custom visualforce page to display list of Accounts and wanted to take advantage of the custom Account Controller filter Property to be able to filter accounts on the page. All I get is just 1 value on the ListView e.g 'All', I want to be able to see e.g 'Recently Viewed Accounts','New This Week' etc. I have checked my code but can't find any error. My code is below.I will be glad if someone can help.

        <apex:page standardController="Account" recordSetVar="accounts">
  <apex:form >
    <apex:pageBlock title="Account List" >
        <apex:outputLabel value="View:"/> &nbsp;
        <apex:selectList value="{!filterId}" size="1">
            <apex:selectOptions value="{!listviewoptions}"/>
        </apex:selectList>
        <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!accounts}" var="a">

        <apex:column > <!-- apex:colum is used to provide columns for pageBlockTables -->
            <apex:facet name="header"> <!--  apex:facet is used to provide header and footer names for the columns in the  pageBlockTables -->
                Account Name
            </apex:facet>

            <apex:facet name="footer">
                End of Table
            </apex:facet>

                <apex:outputField value="{!a.Name}"/>
         </apex:column>

        <apex:column >
            <apex:facet name="header">
                Account Phone Number
            </apex:facet>
                <apex:outputField value="{!a.Phone}"/>
        </apex:column>

    </apex:pageBlockTable>

    <apex:commandLink action="{!previous}">Previous</apex:commandLink> <!-- this is used to add the previous page button to the page-->&nbsp;
    <apex:commandLink action="{!next}"> Next</apex:commandLink> <!-- this is used to add next page button to the page-->

    </apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>

Answer 1

Try adding an extension to see if you are getting any values from the StandardSetController:

public with sharing class AccountListViewExtension
{
    public String selectedFilterId { get; set; }
    public List<SelectOption> filters { get; private set; }

    public AccountListViewExtension(ApexPages.StandardSetController controller)
    {
        filters = controller.getListViewOptions();
        selectedFilterId = controller.getFilterId();

        for (SelectOption filter : filters) system.debug(filter);
    }
}

If the extension finds the filters and you can't get it working without, you can change the markup to:

<apex:selectList value="{!selectedFilterId}">
    <apex:selectOptions value="{!filters}" />
</apex:selectList>

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If the Apex above also cannot find any listViewOptions, then you're having a visibility issue. Try running this query and see if you get any results:

SELECT Name, DeveloperName FROM ListView WHERE SObjectType = 'Account'

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If both of the above are failing, you can try retrieving just the ListView records you need without sharing.

public with sharing class AccountListViewExtension
{
    public String selectedFilterId { get; set; }
    public List<SelectOption> filters { get; private set; }

    public AccountListViewExtension(ApexPages.StandardSetController controller)
    {
        filters = new ListViewFinder.getListViewOptions();
        selectedFilterId = filters[0].value();
    }

    public without sharing class ListViewFinder
    {
        public List<SelectOption> getListViewOptions()
        {
            List<SelectOption> filters = new List<SelectOption>();
            for (ListView listView : [
                SELECT Name FROM ListView WHERE SObjectType = 'Account'
            ]) filters.add(new SelectOption(listView.Id, listView.Name));
            return filters;
        }
    }
}