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Stacie
S-control to populate new objects
I am trying to use a custom s-control to take the data from an existing lead, and create a new
‘candidate’ (a custom object) - for those people that fill out a form online,
but are looking for a job, not our services. I am able to have the custom
s-control open up the ‘new candidate’ window, but I can’t get any of the
data to populate. What am I doing wrong? How do I make it so that
sfdc knows to pull the data from the lead record?
I currently have:
{!URLFOR($Action.Candidate__c.New)},%{!Candidate__c.Name}={!Lead.FirstName}
I currently have:
{!URLFOR($Action.Candidate__c.New)},%{!Candidate__c.Name}={!Lead.FirstName}
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You're code: {!URLFOR($Action.Candidate__c.New)},%{!Candidate__c.Name}={!Lead.FirstName}
Proper Syntax: {!URLFOR(target, id, [parm1="A", parm2="B", etc], [no override])}
id is going to be null when you are making a new record
When specifying params you have to find the HTML field name of the field you want to inert the value into. Something like this: <input name="CF00N70000001dcKo_lkid" (but you don't need the _lkid part)
So it ends up looking like this:
{!URLFOR($Action.Candidate__c.New,null,[EV00N70000001dcKo={!Lead.FirstName},EV00N40000001fSvB={!Lead.LastName}])}
Obvioulsy those field names are not the right field names for you, I just made them up. You'll have to find your own field names.
{!URLFOR($Action.Candidate__c.New,null,(2F01I60000000EAI4={!Lead.FirstName}))}
I looked at the URL for the candidate name, and the string includes:
s/d?id=Name&type=01I60000000EAI4&retURL=%2F01I60000000EAI4%3Fsetupid
I tried both sets of Id's, but I get the same error in both situations...
Now what am I doing wrong?
{!URLFOR($Action.Candidate__c.New,null,[2F01I60000000EAI4={!Lead.FirstName}])}
Second, the field ID you need is not in the URL string. It's in the HTML. OPen up the Candidate object and click New, so you get a new Candidate form. Then look at the source code. Find the <input> tag for the Name field and get the ID from there.
Stacie wrote:
Thank you for your help! I followed your instructions, but first it had a problem with the '[', so I tried replacing that with a '('..but then it says I am missing a ')', and highlights the field id. So, right now I have:
{!URLFOR($Action.Candidate__c.New,null,(2F01I60000000EAI4={!Lead.FirstName}))}
I looked at the URL for the candidate name, and the string includes:
s/d?id=Name&type=01I60000000EAI4&retURL=%2F01I60000000EAI4%3Fsetupid
I tried both sets of Id's, but I get the same error in both situations...
Now what am I doing wrong?
Do this: