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Rick RoseRick Rose 

URL Hack alternatives?

Salesforce1 and Lightening do not support URL Hacks. What alternatives do we have to pre-populate an editable field? 
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James LoghryJames Loghry
Publisher actions are a great alternative to URL hacking.  Check out the Salesforce Wizard's blog on it here: http://thewizardnews.com/2014/01/08/great-url-hack-meet-the-chatter-publisher-action/

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William TranWilliam Tran
Use the clone paradigm.  That is create/save then retrieve for user.  If user cancel you can delete it.  Else user will just update.

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Rick RoseRick Rose
Not really trying to clone. A scenario is that I have a default bill rate field on a contact record. When I create a new hours record I want to pre-populate into the rate field what the default is, but allow the user to overwrite with a different rate. With a URL hack I can create a custom button to pull that data over. 
 
William TranWilliam Tran
Yes, so instead of hacking,

create/save then retrieve the record for user to change.

Thx
James LoghryJames Loghry
Publisher actions are a great alternative to URL hacking.  Check out the Salesforce Wizard's blog on it here: http://thewizardnews.com/2014/01/08/great-url-hack-meet-the-chatter-publisher-action/
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