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

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