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HarmoineHarmoine 

RecordType

How do you create a standard object say 'Contact' record of a particular RecordType say 'InternalContact' from a VF page? When I create the contact using standard controller, the default Contact record gets created not the internalContact recordtype. How do we do this cast?

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OzymandiasOzymandias

Alternatively, if you don't want to give your users a choice, you can use a SOQL statement in your controller to retrieve the Id of 'InternalContact' from the RecordType table, then set it as the value of Contact.RecordTypeId.

 

e.g.

RecordType contactRecType = [select Id from RecordType where Name='InternalContact'];
Contact newContact = new Contact(RecordTypeId=contactRecType.Id);

 

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srikeerthisrikeerthi

Hi

 

If your Saving record from VF page,then you can specify the Record Type of the Contact by using

<apex:inputfield>.Then you can select the Record type and then save the record.

 

 

Thanks
OzymandiasOzymandias

Alternatively, if you don't want to give your users a choice, you can use a SOQL statement in your controller to retrieve the Id of 'InternalContact' from the RecordType table, then set it as the value of Contact.RecordTypeId.

 

e.g.

RecordType contactRecType = [select Id from RecordType where Name='InternalContact'];
Contact newContact = new Contact(RecordTypeId=contactRecType.Id);

 

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HarmoineHarmoine

Thank you so much!!  It worked!! I have been on it for hours. Thankyou!!!