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ministe2003ministe2003 

Apex page messages on standard salesforce pages

Hi all,

Writing some apex which converts an opportunity to another custom object of mine, and it acts upon a button press.  When it fails I want to display page messages to inform the user why it failed.  However, with it being a standard page I dont seem to be able to do it.  In a custom page obviously I'd just stick in the <apex:messages /> tag but with this being the standard Opportunity page, how can I display messages?

 

Thanks!

 

Steven

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Ispita_NavatarIspita_Navatar

Try implementing the validation via an apex trigger, add in it the logic to check the validation and in case of the validation failing raise error with add-error method. Please refer the following for reference:-


if(strAcctRecTypeName == 'Limited Partner')            {                if(strPAccRecTypeName != 'Institution')                {                      Trigger.new[0].parentId.addError('A '+strPAccRecTypeName+' cannot be the Parent of a Limited Partner. Please select an Institution instead of a '+strPAccRecTypeName+'.');                }            }


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Ispita_NavatarIspita_Navatar

Try implementing the validation via an apex trigger, add in it the logic to check the validation and in case of the validation failing raise error with add-error method. Please refer the following for reference:-


if(strAcctRecTypeName == 'Limited Partner')            {                if(strPAccRecTypeName != 'Institution')                {                      Trigger.new[0].parentId.addError('A '+strPAccRecTypeName+' cannot be the Parent of a Limited Partner. Please select an Institution instead of a '+strPAccRecTypeName+'.');                }            }


Did this answer your question? If not, let me know what didn't work, or if so, please mark it solved.

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ministe2003ministe2003

addError? does that work differently to the apex page messages?  I might try that in future, for now I just direct the user to another custom page with the error.

 

Thanks

Steven

davcondevdavcondev

What about a success message?
GaryP.ax988GaryP.ax988

 

davcondev wrote:

What about a success message?

 

that is exactly what I am trying to do!! I keep seeing comments about using triggers and error messages but how about just a friendly "request submitted" type of message on a standard saleforce page (one where you can't edit the visualforce code)..     

 

Good luck!
bgoncloudbgoncloud

Hi,

 

Were you able to achieve this? displaying a success message on top of a standard salesforce page?