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Mathew Andresen 5Mathew Andresen 5 

Lighting Connect and Visualforce

So went through the Lighting Connect Trailhead, and everything works fine.  I can connect to the test database, and I connected the Orders__x object to the Account object.

So I figure let's test it out in visualforce but that's where I started running into trouble.  I figure to start, I would do a real simple test somethign like the following
<apex:page standardController="Orders__x">

  <apex:detail />

 
</apex:page>

and I used the externalId as my connector
https://c.na16.visual.force.com/apex/phonepage?ExternalId=1001

But it's not working.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

 
KristofferGreeneKristofferGreene
To set up retrieving by another page parameter other than ID you'd need to set up something with ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters() and a differen SOQL query. The external objects do have an standard salesforce id associated with them, prefixed with an x. So with a standard controller on a visualforce page you'd have a url something like: https://c.na31.visual.force.com/apex/PhoneExternal?id=x0137000000GmcZAAS&sfdc.override=1.