Hi,

We've built a controller that we use for our custom object that just allows us to show the content in a visualforce page, slightly different to a standard Salesforce layout. 

Everything seems to work perfectly until we start to introduce lookup fields to the account because the user will always create a new custom object Erad__c from the account the value will always be populated, however when we reference this field just in the same way as a text or number field the value isn't stored. We are relatively new to this sort of thing so any advice that could be offered would be appreciated.

I'm guessing that we need to store the value in the controller correctly and refernce back to the visualforce page but we're unsure on how to exactly go about it.

Visualforce page

<apex:page standardController="Erad__c" extensions="insertnewrecordController">

Hello {!$User.FirstName}!    
   
   <p>You are viewing the Erad model. Please enter the Relationship grade below based on the image and the date your assesment was made.</p>

<apex:form >
<apex:pageBlock >
<apex:pageBlockSection >
<apex:pageBlockSectionItem >
<apex:outputLabel >Account</apex:outputLabel>
<apex:inputField id="Account" value="{!Erad__c.Account__c}"/>
</apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
<apex:pageBlockSectionItem >
<apex:outputLabel >Relationship Type</apex:outputLabel>
<apex:inputField id="RelationshipType" value="{!Erad__c.Relationship_Type__c}"/>
</apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
<apex:pageBlockSectionItem >
<apex:outputLabel >Date Completed</apex:outputLabel>
<apex:inputField id="DateCompleted" value="{!Erad__c.Date_Completed__c}"/>
</apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
</apex:pageBlockSection>
<apex:pageBlockButtons >
<apex:commandButton id="Save" action="{!Save}" value="Save"/>
<apex:commandButton id="Cancel" action="{!Cancel}" value="Cancel"/>
</apex:pageBlockButtons>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>
<apex:image url="{!$Resource.Erad}" width="500" height="500"/>
</apex:page>

Controller
 

public class insertnewrecordController{
public erad__c cds{get; set;}
public erad__c setcds(erad__c op){
this.cds=op;
return cds;
}
public insertnewrecordController(ApexPages.StandardController controller) {
cds=new erad__c();
}

public pagereference Save(){

erad__c cd = new erad__c();
cd.Account__c=cds.Account__c;
cd.Relationship_Type__c=cds.Relationship_Type__c;
cd.Date_Completed__c=cds.Date_Completed__c;
insert cd;
Pagereference pg = new Pagereference('/' + cd.id);
pg.setredirect(true);
return pg;


}
 
}

Thanks,

Snita