How to get ID prefix if you know the object name

Question

I find an object I need in Setup => Create => Objects. I want to get a list of this objects or create a new one.

I know, that if I have an existing object, I take first three chars and I'm fine. Here, I don't know this prefix.

How can I get it without Eclipse IDE? Like, I'm a regular user and I want to create this type of object. No tab for this object.

Answer 1

The Workbench tool will allow you to retrieve the key prefix of any standard and custom object: https://workbench.developerforce.com/login.php

Not only the key prefix, but other information as well, like the fields, relationships and so on. Just login, describe your object and you are good to go!

Answer 2

As a regular user, the only way would be to either attempt to create a record from a related object then look at the URL to get the prefix or view an existing record and look at the url.

If the user has access to the dev console you can debug this line of code:

system.debug(logginglevel.error,OBJECTAPINAME.sobjecttype.getDescribe().getKeyPrefix());

Otherwise with your given parameters it would not be possible.

If the Sandbox is a FULL sandbox the key prefix should be the same as it is in Production

Answer 3

After a lot of snooping around (and thanks to the other answers in this thread) I thought I'd come back here and post some code for retrieving the SObject name (not the label!) and the corresponding prefix:

for(schema.SObjectType s : Schema.getGlobalDescribe().Values()){
    if(s.getDescribe().getKeyPrefix() != null){
        system.debug(s.getDescribe().getName() + ': ' + s.getDescribe().getKeyPrefix());
    }
}

This will give you a list of all your objects and their key prefixes in the debug log. You can run this in the workbench (under utilities > Apex Execute) to get it to output.

Hope this helps other people doing the same search as me!