getting Record Type Description

Question

What is the best way to get the Record Type Description to display in a page?

    public class AccountRecordTypes {
    @AuraEnabled
    public static Map<String,String> GetAvailableRecordTypeAccount()
    {
        Map<String,String> recordTypeMap = new Map<String,String>();
        Schema.DescribeSObjectResult R = Account.SObjectType.getDescribe();
        List<Schema.RecordTypeInfo> RT = R.getRecordTypeInfos();

       for( Schema.RecordTypeInfo recordType : RT )
    {
        if(recordType.isAvailable())
        { 
            if(recordType.Name!='Master') {
                recordTypeMap.put(recordType.getRecordTypeId(),recordType.Name);
            }
        }
    }


        }
        return recordTypeMap;
    }
}

Answer 1

It seems that using RecordTypeInfo, you cannot actually get the Description field. So in that case, you can actually do a SOQL to get the record type details that you need.

Your query should look something as below:

SELECT Name, DeveloperName, Description FROM RecordType WHERE SobjectType = 'Account'

And once you get the results, you just construct the return data from your method. Your overall approach should look like this:

for(RecordType rec : [SELECT Name, DeveloperName, Description FROM RecordType WHERE SobjectType = 'Account']) {
    recordTypeMap.put(rec.Name, rec.Description);
}