Hi All,

 

I have added a custom link in Accounts to a custom report.  And I use https://na2.salesforce.com/" + reportId + "?pv0={!Account.Name} which works great in my developer account.  Does the URL(https://na2.salesforce.com) varies for trial and production accounts?  I tried with a trial account where the URL looks like https://ap1.salesforce.com/.  So I am asked to reenter my login details to access the page.  So what would be the solution for this.  I do not want the user to sign twice to access the report.

 

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Ananth Chellathurai

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Hello Everyone,

 

I am trying to update accounts page layout with a custom link.  I managed to create a custom link which is great.  Now I am able to retrieve the page layout through retrieve call.  Which gives a zip file,  is there a way I could update the layout through the Metadata API?  So far I have tried this,

 

     Layout co = new Layout();

        co.setFullName("Account-Trial2");

        

        LayoutSection layoutSection = new LayoutSection();

        layoutSection.setStyle(LayoutSectionStyle.CustomLinks);

        layoutSection.setCustomLabel(true);

        layoutSection.setLabel("Custom Links");

        LayoutColumn layoutColumn = new LayoutColumn();

        LayoutItem[] layoutItemList = new LayoutItem[1];

        LayoutItem layoutItem = new LayoutItem();

        layoutItem.setCustomLink("Infosmart_Results");

        layoutItemList[0] = layoutItem;

        layoutColumn.setLayoutItems(layoutItemList);

        LayoutColumn[] layoutColumnList = new LayoutColumn[1];

        layoutColumnList[0] = layoutColumn;

        layoutSection.setLayoutColumns(layoutColumnList);

        LayoutSection[] layoutSectionList = new LayoutSection[1];

        layoutSectionList[0] = layoutSection;

        co.setLayoutSections(layoutSectionList);

        

        UpdateMetadata updateMetadata = new UpdateMetadata();

        updateMetadata.setMetadata(co);

        updateMetadata.setCurrentName("Trial");   // co.getFullName(); 

 

This code leads to the following exception

 

Error status code: FIELD_INTEGRITY_EXCEPTION

Error message: Layout must contain an item for required layout field: Name

The object state is Error

 

What am I missing here.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Regards

Ananth Chellathurai

Blog 

 

 

Is there a way I can add a new custom link to my accounts page?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Ananth Chellathurai

http://ananthchellathurai.blogspot.com/ 

Hi,

 

I am trying to create a custom link from my accounts which takes me to my custom tab, where I have created a filtered view.   I am trying like this

 

https://na2.salesforce.com/a00{!IF(CONTAINS(Account.Name , 'Test') , "?fcf=00B40000005ikx0" ,'/o' )} 

 

When I don't have the word test in my account name it takes me to the proper page.  But the account name contains test it doesn't work.  It is because the "? and =" are not recogonized, and been converted to %3F and %3D.  Any help on how to do this will be greately appreciated.

 

Ananth Chellathurai 

How to insert multiple records of my custom object.  Any sample code could help.  Can I make a file based deploy to insert records for my cutom object.  Is there a way I could do through my java webservices?  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance. 

Ananth 

I am trying file based retrieval.  As wild card * option is not allowed for dashboard,  how should I mention the members to retrieve my dashboards?

I have tried using listMetadata() method to retrieve the full name of my dashboard.  And I have found the full name to be results/TrialDashboard.  But when I mention this in the package.xml,  I am not able to retrive my dashboards.

 

    <types>

     <members>results</members>

        <members>results/TrialDashboard</members>

        <name>Dashboard</name>

    </types>

didn't help too. 

Thanks in advance. 

I have downloaded the latest enterprise and metadata wsdl and generated client code out of it.  When I tried to run the CreateSample for custom objects,  I get this exception "No operation available for request {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}create"

 

What do I miss here? 

I am trying to execute the CreateSample with the generated java code from my metadata wsdl.  Once when I run the application,  I get a message like

 

- Unable to find required classes (javax.activation.DataHandler and javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart). Attachment support is disabled.

 

After login when I hit enter I get the following exception message "No operation available for request {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}create" 

 

The sample code from the metadata api had like

metadatabinding._setProperty(MetadataBindingStub.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY,

                loginResult.getMetadataServerUrl()); 

But there is no method defined as getMetadataServerUrl() in LoginResult in my enterprise package.  So I have chenged getMetadataServerUrl() to getServerURL()

Can some one help me in what do I miss here.

Thanks in Advance. 

I have succeeded to modify my s-control from my webservices API.  I do not see Dashboard as a child of SObject.  So is there a way I could create a new dashboard with my existing s-control,  from webservice?

 

Thanks in Advance 

I need to include my application results pushed into an area on the SFDC dashboard. Please guide me the ways to do this.

Ananth Chellathurai

Hi All,

 

I have added a custom link in Accounts to a custom report.  And I use https://na2.salesforce.com/" + reportId + "?pv0={!Account.Name} which works great in my developer account.  Does the URL(https://na2.salesforce.com) varies for trial and production accounts?  I tried with a trial account where the URL looks like https://ap1.salesforce.com/.  So I am asked to reenter my login details to access the page.  So what would be the solution for this.  I do not want the user to sign twice to access the report.

 

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Ananth Chellathurai

Blog

Hello Everyone,

 

I am trying to update accounts page layout with a custom link.  I managed to create a custom link which is great.  Now I am able to retrieve the page layout through retrieve call.  Which gives a zip file,  is there a way I could update the layout through the Metadata API?  So far I have tried this,

 

     Layout co = new Layout();

        co.setFullName("Account-Trial2");

        

        LayoutSection layoutSection = new LayoutSection();

        layoutSection.setStyle(LayoutSectionStyle.CustomLinks);

        layoutSection.setCustomLabel(true);

        layoutSection.setLabel("Custom Links");

        LayoutColumn layoutColumn = new LayoutColumn();

        LayoutItem[] layoutItemList = new LayoutItem[1];

        LayoutItem layoutItem = new LayoutItem();

        layoutItem.setCustomLink("Infosmart_Results");

        layoutItemList[0] = layoutItem;

        layoutColumn.setLayoutItems(layoutItemList);

        LayoutColumn[] layoutColumnList = new LayoutColumn[1];

        layoutColumnList[0] = layoutColumn;

        layoutSection.setLayoutColumns(layoutColumnList);

        LayoutSection[] layoutSectionList = new LayoutSection[1];

        layoutSectionList[0] = layoutSection;

        co.setLayoutSections(layoutSectionList);

        

        UpdateMetadata updateMetadata = new UpdateMetadata();

        updateMetadata.setMetadata(co);

        updateMetadata.setCurrentName("Trial");   // co.getFullName(); 

 

This code leads to the following exception

 

Error status code: FIELD_INTEGRITY_EXCEPTION

Error message: Layout must contain an item for required layout field: Name

The object state is Error

 

What am I missing here.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Regards

Ananth Chellathurai

Blog 

 

 

Is there a way I can add a new custom link to my accounts page?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Ananth Chellathurai

http://ananthchellathurai.blogspot.com/ 

Hi,

 

I am trying to create a custom link from my accounts which takes me to my custom tab, where I have created a filtered view.   I am trying like this

 

https://na2.salesforce.com/a00{!IF(CONTAINS(Account.Name , 'Test') , "?fcf=00B40000005ikx0" ,'/o' )} 

 

When I don't have the word test in my account name it takes me to the proper page.  But the account name contains test it doesn't work.  It is because the "? and =" are not recogonized, and been converted to %3F and %3D.  Any help on how to do this will be greately appreciated.

 

Ananth Chellathurai 

How to insert multiple records of my custom object.  Any sample code could help.  Can I make a file based deploy to insert records for my cutom object.  Is there a way I could do through my java webservices?  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance. 

Ananth 

I am trying file based retrieval.  As wild card * option is not allowed for dashboard,  how should I mention the members to retrieve my dashboards?

I have tried using listMetadata() method to retrieve the full name of my dashboard.  And I have found the full name to be results/TrialDashboard.  But when I mention this in the package.xml,  I am not able to retrive my dashboards.

 

    <types>

     <members>results</members>

        <members>results/TrialDashboard</members>

        <name>Dashboard</name>

    </types>

didn't help too. 

Thanks in advance. 

I have downloaded the latest enterprise and metadata wsdl and generated client code out of it.  When I tried to run the CreateSample for custom objects,  I get this exception "No operation available for request {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}create"

 

What do I miss here? 

Message Edited by si402 on 01-19-2009 03:03 PM

I can't find a way to get a layout object back from the API.  I have been able to successfully create a page layout with the API, but I would like to read exisiting layouts to use for updates.  I have tried to use the Describe objects from the Data API, but they don't seem to have all of the information that I need to build a new layout.  I started with the DescribeLayoutResult object and drilled down to try to do a deep copy, but it's not a copy because the objects are so different, infact, I don't think that the Describe objects have all the information needed to create a new Object. Anyone know how to get a Layout object back from Salesforce?

Hi,
some days ago I posted the message below.

http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=JAVA_development&thread.id=5269

I'm not able to set the Custom Tab visibility with Metadata API.
could you help me?

thank you very much,
Emanuela

Hi everyone,
I've build a custom tab through Metadata API. Now, I can see it into custom tab list in may Salesforce Account but I cannot make it visible in all my applications. How can I set the tab visibility through Metadata API?

thank's a lot,
Emanuela

Hi all,

I'm a newbie using salesforce Webservices API. My question is pretty straightfoward. Is there a way to create a custom link through salesforce Webservices API? If there is, may someone please write the code here to show me how? I would appreciate it if this is done in Java or VB.

Thank you VERY MUCH!!
Take care