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mschmidtmschmidt 

Generic Browser for Salesforce Data

Hello everybody,

I have the following problem.
I want to develop some kind of generic tree browser to navigate around the salesforce data. I've already implemented a flex tree browser that uses SOQL queries for one specific datatype. But to have it in a generic way I would need an easy going API by which I can access the data.

So my question now is:
Is there such a kind of API for Flex and where to start for that?

Thanks & Cheers,
Matthias
werewolfwerewolf
Are you aware that such a thing already exists?  It's written in .net though.  Check it out:

Force.com Explorer 8.0
mschmidtmschmidt
Thanks werewolf for the prompt answer.

Yes, I know this tool and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I want to create a user view on the data inside of salesforce. Ideal would be a tab which shows a tree of all custom objects and fields the user has putted in the system. For this reason an API for accessing the data would be very helpful because it's very unhandy to query the users data all the time.
This API should be in Flex or accessable via Flex. Or is there an Apex library which could be used in that way?

That's more what I'm heading for.


Message Edited by mschmidt on 02-20-2008 01:55 AM
werewolfwerewolf
Well then, you'll want the Flex Toolkit:

http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Flex_Toolkit