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topartnr Finding Dynamically the URL of the Salesforce instance
Hi,
I'm writing Apex trigger that needs to compose a URL to a dynamically created custom object.
Since I don't want to hard code the URL of the Salesforce instance and also don't want to change the code when switching between Sandbox and Prod org's, I'm looking for a way to find out from within Apex code which Salesforce instance it's running in.
So, for example, this code should return 'https://cs2.salesforce.com' when running in a Sandbox and 'https://na2.salesforce.com' when running in Prod.
I've noticed that Sandbox Id's start with 00DR whereas Prod Org IDs start with 00D<some digit>. But am not sure if this is something that can be used to identify the instance or if there is any better way.
Thanks.
new PageReference('/' + myCustomObject.id).getUrl()
The solution to the problem does not work for me.
String retURL = new PageReference('/' + thisNote.id).getUrl();
constructs a url as follows:
Any thoughts ???
Hi Venkat,
The url you showed is a working relative url; better than an absolute one because it will bring you to that object in any salesforce instance.
How are you planning to use the url? If you return a PageReference of this type from Apex to VisualForce, it will cause a redirect, and it will operate correctly regardless of the base of the url.
Have you looked at the docs on this page?
Below is an example, showing that a snippet of code from those docs produces an url in the same style as you showed above.
Account a = [SELECT ID FROM Account Limit 1][0];PageReference p = new ApexPages.StandardController(a).view();system.debug(p);20090701082833.787:AnonymousBlock: line 4, column 1: System.PageReference[/00120000006vIzQ]
Shikibu,
I want to use this url in an email so that the user can click on it to go directly to the page.
A relative URL wouldnt suffice in this case as the complete URL is necessary. I havent gone through the document you suggested, but will read that too.
But, if you know of a code snippet that would give me the complete URL, it would be great.
Thanks
Venkat
Hi Venkat,
I haven't needed an absolute URL before. There are others struggling with this. There are some (ugly) workarounds posted here.
Venkat,
Have a look at this thread too.
In case anyone else finds this helpful: I asked Salesforce developers (via opening a case) as to whether you can reliably identify a org as a sandbox or production from the org ID.
The answer I was given is slightly different to the post above:
- All production org IDs start with '00D*' where * is a number
- All sandbox org IDs start with '00D*' where * is a letter