I am creating a page that let's me create multiple objects at once. The thing is that I want it to be dynamic so that an admin can modify it simply by changing the standard page layouts to make new fields show up or remove other ones. The User can also select record types here to change what layout is in use. Is there an example of how to do this somewhere? I recall seeing it once, but I can't seem to find an example anywhere via google/stack exchange.
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standard Edit page or standard View page (or both)? – cropredy Mar 28 '16 at 17:30
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@cropredy Standard Edit. – dphil Mar 28 '16 at 17:44
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I would have suggested fieldSets but I see you already know this - salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/27826/2602 :-) - otherwise, deconstruct pagelayout from metadata api - developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/… – cropredy Mar 28 '16 at 19:40
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@cropredy Yes, those are both options I am currently looking at. I think I may try using the metadata api. My front end skills are weaker though making using it a bit harder. I wanted to stay away from the change set so that an admin doesn't have to do anything special. – dphil Mar 28 '16 at 20:39
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so, you would be using metadata api to generate dynamic VF components a la developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/… ? you may have less front end work than you think unless you aren't used to VF. – cropredy Mar 28 '16 at 22:39
You can use the detail to expose the standard page layout on a visualforce page. https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/pages_compref_detail.htm
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1There are no Ids at this point besides for RecordType. It also needs to put these in edit mod. I don't think this would help. – dphil Mar 28 '16 at 16:57
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Understood. If you need to create/edit then you might consider using the standard create/edit page but adding a parameter to return you back to your visualforce page once the detail record has been created. Here is a good description raydehler.com/cloud/clod/… – Benjamin Pirih Mar 28 '16 at 17:01
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1Sorry that doesn't help either. They want all of the info for multiple objects on a single page so they can eliminate clicks. – dphil Mar 28 '16 at 17:03
