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How to get fields descriptions and help texts
Hi,
I'd like to have an overview of fields and their related descriptions & help texts.
It would be great to have it in a report, but a SOQL query in Force.com Explorer would do.
I couldn't find a way to do so, so your help is much welcome.
Nathan,
I'd like to have an overview of fields and their related descriptions & help texts.
It would be great to have it in a report, but a SOQL query in Force.com Explorer would do.
I couldn't find a way to do so, so your help is much welcome.
Nathan,
You cannot get the Field Description and help texts information using Describe calls in APEX.
A trick (and a very difficult one) is to use the Metadata API. You can do this via APEX - but the process is async. Since you want to fetch the information, it would require "retrieve" calls - and those are seriously difficult to do in APEX.
Please find the below links for your reference.
http://andyinthecloud.com/2013/10/27/introduction-to-calling-the-metadata-api-from-apex/
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_meta/api_meta.pdf
Kindly mark it as solved if it's resolved.
Best Regards,
Nagendra.P