Questions tagged [sobject]
An sObject represents an object, such as an Account or Campaign. An sObject is the base object for all objects in Apex.
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retrieve other fields of a SObject after a user has selected an option
I am writing an app that will help calculate the statute of limitations for certain laws. ex. enter a date that a crime happened on and, after choosing a law and appropriate limitation the limitation ...
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Change sObject field type and deploy using API
In this thread, there is a discussion about modifying a custom sObject's type. When I try to change the field's type in the Salesforce UI, I can see an error message with some references to the code. ...
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Rendering Array of Custom Objects in Component
I have a custom visualforce component with a controller, it takes an attribute of an Id of a related record, and in the controller I query for the set of objects I want to display.
When I attempt to ...
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How do I get the list of fields of sObject
My code is
myOutput = SELECT location__c, level__c, group__c, count__c from resource__c
public sobject[] data = Database.query(myOutput);
myOutput is an user input value, based on this query I ...
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Apex Cast sObject list dynamically to a specific sObject Type
The upsert() DML operation requires a specific List based on a specific sObject type, for instance:List<Account> lstAccount = new List<Account>();
However, we are trying to generate a ...
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Get SObject from Schema.SObjectType
I am getting all objects and fields now I need to add the object and field to a map where map is
public List sObjectFieldLst = new List();
How can add the values to the map from Schema....
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Didn't understand relationship error - Similar relationships, different behaviours
We have two objects which has lookups to Account object. Objects are as follows
Issue (audit_breach__c) - R/S name Issues
Audit (audit__c). - R/S name Audits
Were trying to do the following SOQL on ...
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How do I specify the sObject type when working with specific fields in a cast collection of sObjects
I had to transfer a bunch of records from one user to another today. I decided to use the dev console because I needed it done quickly.
I wanted to write generic code using sObjects but couldn't work ...
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What is the object that stores "files"
Which object stores the files (not attachments)? I'm looking to access this via a trigger.
Is it possible to add a field to this document/file objects?
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Why am I unable to pass an Opportunity from a Lightning Component into an @AuraEnabled Apex controller method?
I have a Lightning Component with an Opportunity attribute. The controller calls a helper method, which obtains the Opportunity from the component and attempts to pass it into Apex to be saved.
I am ...
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How to assign Sobject list into String
Hi I am having an Sobject list. While iterating through the Sobject list using FOR loop, I can only able to get the Id not all the fields of the Sobject. Can someone please help me to solve the issue.
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How to use a Fieldset with an arbitrary sObject in Visualforce?
Working from the fieldsets section of the Visualforce Developer's Guide, I can build a table based on a fieldset for a given sObject type, for example (error handling elided for clarity):
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Many-to-Many schema design
We are soon to implement a solution where people (Person__c) can delegate jobs to other people, and which jobs depend upon a person's Role. (Role__c). The role of a person depends on the delegation ...
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Salesforce Objects that do not have Id as the unique identifier
I just observed that a Salesforce Object called ApexPageInfo has duplicate Ids. The assumption was that Ids are unique. However, prodding through the describessObject of the object, the field ...
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SOQL Query to get Accounts that have been refreshed since x time
I have a connected app that will pull data from a salesforce Object. In order to do so, am executing the following query (and sending it through the REST API as form-url-encoded):
SELECT Name,Id,...
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Dynamic Apex SObject Iteration
I've been trying for many hours to find the correct syntax in the documentation and via other searches in Google to get some dynamic code to run. Hopefully someone here will be able to provide the ...
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List<SObject> Cast to List Concrete type
I have a List<sObject> scope and I want to cast it to a concrete type: List<My_Concrete_Type__c>
I tried scope.getSobjects('My_Concrete_Type__c') but this doesn't compile. How can I get ...
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Cast a Map <Id, sObject> to Map <Id, Opportunity>
I'm trying to implement the trigger framework outlined here:
The triggerhandler methods take lists or maps of sObjects as their inputs. In his example he casts list <sObject> as list <...
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Add to a cart : create and populate a custom object in apex
In a lightning component, I want that when I click a button, it create a new custom object (a virtual cart) and populate it with the select item.
I have 3 custom object: the articles__c, the ...
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Incorrectly Typed List - No Runtime Exception?
Grouping records is a pretty common pattern, enough so to write a simple library for it. Something like:
public class GroupBy
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public Map<Id, List<SObject>> ids(SObjectField field, ...
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Trigger Calculation between two fields from different sObjects
I am new to apex. I have two objects blood_bank__c and patient__c.
I want to change quantity of blood in blood bank after patient is given some blood. This trigger is not working, and its not allowing ...
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Standard SObject which are not exposed by Salesforce
I would like to know if there is Standard SObject for Changeset or Package?
I noticed that 033 is prefix for Package and 0A2 is key prefix for Changeset.
However, neither of there objects are not ...
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Unable to create copy Case owner look up field onto a custom lookup field
Is there any possibility to create the custom field like case owner of standard field.
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Null record Date field displays todays date
I have a VF page where I am rendering out some subscription information and a couple of the fields are date fields. The issue (sort of) I am seeing is when a record is null and the VF markup calls a ...
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Utility Method Returning Different Type (Set instead of List)
Previously I had posted this question awhile back: Utility Methods flexible enough for all sObject Types
Now I want to expand my method a bit to return a Set<Object> instead of a List<Object&...
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How to find External ID of contact sobject?
I am looking into doing a web-to-lead integration with a Drupal website. As I understand it, to push data to a salesforce sobject I need to identify the relevant fields in Salesforce which are being ...
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Deploying Entire Project getting "Cannot create workflow directly" Related to Reply and Question Sobjects
I'm using Sublime with Mavensmate to deploy an existing project to my SF dev org. Upon deploying I get the following errors.
Reply.workflow: Cannot create workflow directly; must create the ...
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"System.SObjectException: Contact.AccountId does not belong to SObject type Contact" error often in Summer '16
We are seeing a test failure in a couple of our Continuous Integration builds (that deploy the same code) with the error:
System.SObjectException: Contact.AccountId does not belong to SObject
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Sobject put set value of managed field in case of same field api name as unmanaged field
We are developing a managed package that contains a custom object and a REST API to do CRUD operation on that object. We are not using standard salesforce REST API for valid business reasons.
In this ...
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Trigger on Single Field
I was playing around with Apex Triggers and was wondering, suppose I had an object (for example Account), which contains a sub-object (such as the string BillingAddress).
Can I set a trigger on ...
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Does List<SObject>.sort method implementation depend on version?
I believe that I have found very interested undocumented bug in Salesforce.
I don't see in the documentation saying that List.sort method implementation depends on version, but looks like it does. If ...
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Updating records before insertion from a custom object into a standard object
I am working on a project in "Developer Edition" of salesforce ...
I want to create such mechanism so that whenever I create a record in a standard object , it would check a certain criteria ( custom ...
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How to check that SObject field is present in SOQL query
When you try to attempt to the field that not present in SOQL query, you get error like that:
System.SObjectException: SObject row was retrieved via SOQL without querying the requested field: ...
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Required Field on VisualForce Triggers "SObject row does not allow errors" message?
I must be missing something here..I have a visualforce page, that enables a user to create a Campaign - I have a pageblock/section with the Campaign Fields, including name, and Name is marked required....
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How to size database columns for storing Salesforce fields; length or bytelength?
All fields in Salesforce have two lengths; a unicode character length and bytes length; our org uses UTF-8. We're sizing tables/columns in Oracle to accomodate our data from the cloud, my question is ...
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Can someone please explain what is meant by sObject?
I am very new to the Apex programming first.And I know about Standard & Custom objects. And also the the custom objects have an extension of '__c'. I observed in the programming lot of reference ...
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Embedded VF Page Not Responding To StandardController
I am trying to embed a custom VF page into my Accounts layout. I believe my error is in the standardController. I assumed it should be SObject but it did not work and now I am not 100% sure what it ...
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insufficient previlage Error showing when insert record from modal(popup) Dynamicly
public SObject SobjectNewRecord{get; set;}
public void newRecord(){
Map<String, Schema.SObjectType> gd = Schema.getGlobalDescribe();
Schema.SobjectType oType = gd.get(...
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Infering sObject Type from Id or collection of Id's
If I have an instance of an Id variable that has been populated with a value, is there way to infer the sObject type of that Id using a describe call.
So if I did:
Set<id> parentIds = new ...
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Invalid field for SObject using nested SOQL Query
Trying to create a list of Open activities so that I can sort and display as an apexDataTable on a VF page.
I'm currently seeing the error:
Invalid field Subject for SObject Account
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Not able to undelete Attachments
I have written a trigger on Attachment. Events are after insert, update, delete and undelete. But I noticed that the undelete trigger doesn't fire at all. I tried to undelete from recycle bin. Even ...
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Compile Error: Initial term of field expression must be a concrete SObject: String
this is checkbox S1SD1__c
public static void moveStageBackward(Opportunity opp, Opportunity oldOpp, String newStage, String oldStage){
Map<String, Schema.SObjectField> objectFieldMap = ...
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Passing Sobject to apex rest method using JSON
I am exploring a way to pass a sobject to an apex class. Below is my apex class:
@RestResource(urlMapping = '/resturl/*')
global with sharing class check {
public boolean Hide {
get;
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How to create relation between a custom object and Products Line Item ? (Same as Quotes & Quote Line Item)
I was looking for a clean approach where I can apply multiple Products' to a Proposal(Estimate). Would need to be able to add an unknown number of Products to the Proposal(Estimate), along with ...
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Quote Trigger Initial term of field expression must be a concrete SObject: Boolean at line 32 column 89
I can't seem to figure my issue here on the code below. Originally I had Opportunity__c and was getting a invalid field error. I replaced Opportunity__c with the OpportunityId field and received the ...
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How to see the entire resultset in the debug log instead of (n more)?
Good Morning, Thanks in advance for reading.
Is there any way to display the whole sObject in the resultset returned by SOQL query instead of the (n more) below e.g. 30 more, 22 more etc. ? I am ...
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External id field is not populating when cloning a sobject record
I have used object.clone() here and then changed some field values. All the changes are reflected in the cloned record except not able to populate External Id field which is concatenation of two Id ...
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Overwrite an SObject with another SObject without losing related records
In Apex is there an efficient way to overwrite an SObject instance with another SObject (both of the same type) without losing parent and children records?
In the following example I want to replace ...
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how to loop through a list of sObject and field on VF page
I have a list of sObject which get populated dynamically all the objects and the related fields. The list look like this on debug
(Contact:{OtherCountry=, Division_Type__c=}, Account:{AccountNumber=}...
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Get fields from custom object
I have a string which is a name of sObject. I converted the string to a sObject. Now I want to get the fields from the object. When I try to access the fields from sobject (contact) i am getting error ...
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