is there a way to add related list in a VF page dynamically

Question

I have custom object which has the address fields, so if one enters the suburb then it should lookup another objects and list out probable postcode and states which would allow the user to choose the correct one.

For this reason i wanted to use a VF page as i would not be able to do this in the standard layout. This brings out a problem of changing the VF page each time a new field is added/removed. This could also be resolved by fieldsets i guess.

We would also need to have the ability to add / remove relatedlists as well dynamically instead of changing the VF page everytime we want to add / remove a related list. Is there a way to query for relatedlists from a pagelayout or something like that

Answer 1

I would try to use Schema.DescribeSObjectResult class to get all child relationship name of the object. You can then use these names for the apex:relatedList tag:

Schema.DescribeSObjectResult R = CustomObject__c.SObjectType.getDescribe();

for(Schema.ChildRelationship rs :R.getChildRelationships()){
    System.debug('#### rs: ' + rs.getRelationshipName());
}