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pfogpfog 

Need help with Custom Button / Object

I could use some help figuring out how to develop a custom button.  We have the following Custom Objects: Marketing Campaign (very simple start / stop dates with description) and Event Attendees (which links a contact with a campaign and has checkboxes for RSVP, Confirmation, Attended).  We use this quite abit for Relating action items, email etc to campaigns.
 
We'd like to expand on this with a custom button(s) from Contact Lists to select multiple contacts from a list and then add to a campaign.  Preferably it will take user to a window to select from a campaign drop-down (similar to the way Change Lead Status works).
 
Can anyone help me get started?
caroline_sfdccaroline_sfdc
Pfog,

Have you taken a look at the Force.com Cookbook (http://www.apexdevnet.com/cookbook/)? There's a chapter entitled "Customizing Buttons and Links" that can help you get started. In particular, there are two recipes that will give you a good overview of how to write custom buttons that operate on lists:

  • "Creating a Mass Delete Button" on page 132
  • "Creating a Mass Update Button" on page 135
If you can write JavaScript that finds the list of available campaigns (via a SOQL query), displays them in a list, and then gets the user's choice, you should be most of the way there.

Hope that helps a little,

Caroline Roth
Co-Author, Force.com Cookbook