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When to use dynamic URL as Formula field?
A new custom field type of “dynamic url” or “formula url” needs to be added. These fields would work just like regular url fields except the values would be calculated based on other fields on the object. For example we want to link all contacts to our internal website using a url field.
How do I get the base URL in the formula editor?
You’d end up at this url when you create a task using the regular new task button for an account: To make this into a custom button you could code hard code the instance like this: If it’s a resource relative to your org, you should not need to use fully qualified URL’s generally.
How to create a dynamic URL for a website?
The link is as follow http://website.com/contact.html?contactid=0037000000Y6W5h At this point we have to hardcode the link or use a trigger to update the url whenever the contact is changed. It would be nice to just insert a “dynamic url” that could generate the link based on the contactid as a mergefield.
How to create a dynamic clickable link in HTML?
Now, we’re going to add a Text element (Add Content > Text & Image > Text). Once added and selected, click the “HTML” button. Delete the text and paste in the following HTML structure: Leave the “#” sign in place. This is what we target with replacement Our example looks like this: Now it’s time to paste in some Custom Code.
How to get the Org url per formula?
I want to enter the link to an Opportunity Product into a junktion object within a process in the process builder. After this the useer could click at the link to oppen the opportunity product direct out of this new tab. Its no problem to get the id of the opportunity object but how could i get the basic url to add it infront of the url?
Do you need base URL for custom button?
In almost all instances you shouldn’t need the instance base url to make a custom button. APEX has very recently added functions to get this programmatically. And as @techtrekker points out you can also get it in the formula field.
You can also use methods on the URL class to get this, getSalesforceBaseUrl. So it maybe be possible to point your button or formula to a page that then uses this and redirects further. Thanks for contributing an answer to Salesforce Stack Exchange!