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newbiewvfdevnewbiewvfdev 

<apex:detail /> tag not working as specified in the developers guide

Hi there,

 

I am trying to follow the example in the developers guide on page 21.

 

<apex:page standardController="Account">
    <apex:pageblock title="Hello {!$User.FirstName}">
        You are viewing the {!account.name} account.
    </apex:pageblock>
    <apex:detail />
</apex:page>

 

I dont' see the detail section. I only see the pageBlock section. What am I missing?

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stephanstephan
I think the problem is that the param in your URL is Id (capital I) as opposed to id (lower case i).

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jwetzlerjwetzler

Did you supply an id to it?  If there's no record to display it won't show anything.

 

You can either visit your page with ?id=001xxx (replace 001xxx with the id of an account record) or you can specify a subject attribute on apex:detail with the id of the account you want to display.

newbiewvfdevnewbiewvfdev

Yes, I know about that. I am passing in the id. If I specify the subject attribute it works. But I am wondering why it's not working if I dont' specify it. On the documentation it says it should show it.

 

 
jwetzlerjwetzler
can you paste the full URL you're using to access your page?
newbiewvfdevnewbiewvfdev
https://c.na3.visual.force.com/apex/HelloWorld?Id=0015000000HtedA
jwetzlerjwetzler

First I've heard of this not working and I can't reproduce it myself.  I feel like I must be missing something.  You're using the exact code you pasted originally right?  With standardController="account"?

 

If you're using that exact code and URL then please log a case.

stephanstephan
I think the problem is that the param in your URL is Id (capital I) as opposed to id (lower case i).
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jwetzlerjwetzler
nice catch, Stephan.  Yes, query parameters are case sensitive.
newbiewvfdevnewbiewvfdev

Thanks stephan and Jill,

 

That was a good catch indeed. But it's strange that it was able to access the account name using Id(Capital) but not the rest of the data.  By the way, is there a way to show just one of the relatedList through the detail tag?
I know there is a component called relatedList. But for some reason when I try using that for Campaign it doesn't work. Thanks.

 

This does not work:

<apex:page standardcontroller="Campaign">
    <apex:relatedList list="CampaignMembers"/>
</apex:page>