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SL Tan S-control question
I wonder if anyone has come across the same situation and can advise me.
I have an S-control custom link on a Custom Object A that generates a report extracting data from fields in the Custom Object A. The merge fields referencing the Custom Object A extracts the data nicely. However I have a few fields where data need to be extracted from another Custom Object B.
These data from B can be generated from another S-Control C to show on A after Save successfully.
However there does not seem to be a way to get the merge field data from B to show in this report . I tried to use the Field Type $SControl and use C for the Merge Field but got the following comments when the report is generated :
| /servlet/servlet.Integration?lid=01N500000008xFK&eid=__ENTITY_ID__&enc=UTF-8&ic=1 | |
Many thanks in advance
SL
I think I get what you are trying to do. Basically, the $Scontrol function will provide you the url location of the specified scontrol. So I don't see that working for you here.
Also, unless custom object A and custom object B are somehow related you will not be able to get data from merge fields from an scontrol on a record from object A page layout. Additionally, since you cannot do joins from Object A to Object B you will not be able to get a standard report to get data from both objects on a single report.
To use salesforce.com standard reporting module you must either create a relationship between your two custom objects or populate fields on one object's records with data from the other object.
My suggestion is to always run scontrol C which you indicate will populate fields on A after save. Only after the fields have been populated will the report work.
There could be other options too. Let me know if you'd like other suggestions,
-greg
Hi Greg
Thanks a lot for your reply and kind suggestions. Finally I found a way to work round this by altering the report content without sacrificing the required information on the report but still meet users needs.
Best Regards
SL