Can we create tab for custom metadata?
Custom tabs let you display custom object data or other web content in Salesforce. When you add a custom tab to an app in Salesforce Classic, it appears as a tab. For more information, see “Custom Tabs” in Salesforce Help. This type extends the Metadata metadata type and inherits its fullName field.
What is the Salesforce metadata API?
Use Metadata API to retrieve, deploy, create, update or delete customization information, such as custom object definitions and page layouts, for your organization. This API is intended for managing customizations and for building tools that can manage the metadata model, not the data itself.
What does customapplication mean in the metadata API?
CustomApplication represents a custom or standard application. In API version 29.0 and earlier, CustomApplication represents only a custom application. An application is a list of tab references, with a description and a logo. This type extends the Metadata metadata type and inherits its fullName field.
What’s the difference between custom settings and custom metadata?
Custom Metadata Types have WAY more options that Custom Settings, like picklist fields, long text areas (in Spring ’17), page layouts, and validation rules. You can control the visibility of Custom Metadata Types by specifying it as public or protected.
What can custom metadata types do in Salesforce?
With custom metadata types, you can issue unlimited Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) queries for each Apex transaction. While migrating Custom Metadata Types to another org, the associated data you created against it is also deployed to the target organization.
How to declare apex variable of custom metadata type?
For example, declare an Apex variable of a custom metadata type like this. Now let’s get the values of a custom field from all the custom metadata records of a certain type. Notice that even though the suffix for the custom metadata type is __mdt, the suffix for the custom field stays as __c.