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I created a visualforce page to override the new button of custom object called "Employment History" which is a child object to the standard contact object. I did this in order for the record name (in this case its called employment history name) to be pre-populated with the value "Default Value - IGNORE" so that I could update it with some concatenated field values on the same record using a workflow field update.

I was able to override the new button with a custom visualforce page in order for the record name to be pre-populated but this prevented the master-detail field to the contact object called "Student" from being populated with the parent record when I went to click the new button on the related list located on the contact detail page.

Here is the code I used to override the new button 

<apex:page standardController="Employment_History__c"
action="{!URLFOR($Action.Employment_History__c.New, null, ['Name'='Default 
Value - IGNORE'], true)}"
/>

I would really appreciate it if someone could explain to me how I can set the master detail field on the employment history object equal to the contact ID of the parent contact record.

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  • Why a VF page, just use the standard URL Hack that has been talked about for years: salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/147989/url-hack-question – Eric Dec 6 '16 at 4:33
  • It seems to me that this URL hacking requires that you create a brand new button. I want to override the standard new button on the Employment history object so that the resulting page has the record name and the master-detail to contacts pre-populated. I'm not able to remove the new button to replace it with a custom button. I got the idea from this page salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/36281/… – Victor Mora Dec 6 '16 at 4:58
  • Is there a way I can include a url hack in a visualforce page? or some other way I could do this? – Victor Mora Dec 6 '16 at 5:25
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You need to assign the parent Id and Name

{!URLFOR($Action.Employment_History__c.New, null, ['Name'='Default 
Value - IGNORE', CF00NE0000002aLV0_lkid=Parent_Object_Name__c.Id , CF00NE0000002aLV0=Parent_Object_Name__c.Name], true)}"

SO here CF00NE0000002aLV0_lkid will be your lookup Id in a new standard page.

You have to inspect the lookup field and get the name from the input tag.

For more info check this post http://raydehler.com/cloud/clod/salesforce-url-hacking-to-prepopulate-fields-on-a-standard-page-layout.html

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  • Thank you for the update! However I get the error message "Error: Syntax error. Missing Unknown token: 23" whenever I try to save my code. Here are all the different kinds of code I tried based on your response and the link you provided. – Victor Mora Dec 6 '16 at 10:43
  • <apex:page standardController="Employment_History__c" action= "{!URLFOR($Action.Employment_History__c.New, null, ['Name'='Default Value - IGNORE', CF00NE0000002aLV0_lkid= Contact__c.Id , CF00NE0000002aLV0= Contact__c.First_Name + Contact__c.Last_Name], true)}" /> Please help if you can – Victor Mora Dec 6 '16 at 10:53
  • <apex:page standardController="Employment_History__c" action= "{!URLFOR($Action.Employment_History__c.New, null, ['Name'='Default Value - IGNORE', CF00N4100000HuU1K_lkid= {Contact__r.Id} , CF00N4100000HuU1K= {Contact__c.First_Name} + {Contact__c.Last_Name} ], true)}" /> – Victor Mora Dec 6 '16 at 10:57
  • @VictorMora try this {!URLFOR($Action.Employment_History__c.New, null, ['Name'='Default Value - IGNORE', CF00N4100000HuU1K_lkid= Contact__r.Id, CF00N4100000HuU1K= Contact__c.Last_Name__c ], true)} – Ratan Paul Dec 6 '16 at 11:14
  • I keep getting this error "Error: Syntax error. Missing Unknown token: 23" :( – Victor Mora Dec 6 '16 at 11:45

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