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Delivered in Summer 11

Jason Venable

Apex method to identify salesforce.com server

Development (Apex, LWC & VF)

It would be helpful to have an Apex method that returns the server sub domain (na1, na2, cs1, ap0, etc). When building hyperlinks in the code for either external emails or the comments section of Task, Notes, etc you must hard code the value into your hyperlinks. This makes it difficult for the code to be packaged and scale across different orgs.

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Josh Kaplan - 8 years ago

This can be accomplished with the URL class:

System.URL.getSalesforceBaseURL().getHost();
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Tracy Powell - 8 years ago

I haven't had a chance to test, but has anyone checked to see if this will give a valid instance for a masked Sites page or a Visualforce page in an org using My Domain?
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Manu Dewan - 8 years ago

Based on the last comment by Josh, I beleive this can be marked as delivered?
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Josh Kaplan - 8 years ago

This can be accomplished with the URL class:

System.URL.getSalesforceBaseURL().getHost();
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Navees Ahmed - 8 years ago

Please also add global variable to get server url
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Jason Driscoll - 8 years ago

This would be very helpful. Creating trigger now where it would be helpful to have url.
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Nicolas Watroba - 8 years ago

Hey Ray Guy,

bgilbert actually posted the solution right before your post.

You can get the salesfoce url just like bgilbert posted:

String baseURL = URL.getSalesforceBaseUrl().toExternalForm() + '/' + object.Id;

See http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_methods_system_url.htm

He also added a link to the docs that might come in handy.

Cheers!

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Ray Guy - 8 years ago

this is an essential feature - please add
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Bryan Gilbert - 9 years ago

Is this the solution:
String baseURL = URL.getSalesforceBaseUrl().toExternalForm() + '/' + object.Id;

See http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_methods_system_url.htm

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Charles Oliveria - 9 years ago

This should be a basic functionality. It is a struggle to create nice emails with hyperlinks to the proper records. Hard coding is not an option since our applications includes a batch app on appexchange.

Please make this available ASAP!

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Cody Sechelski - 9 years ago

I know how to get the current page url and subString out the server's sub-domain, but I need to be able to get this information from a utillity class I created. An APEX method would be best.

At the very least, it would be nice to have a method for determining if the instance is a sandbox or production. Perhaps a method that resolves to a Boolean like isProduction() or something.

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Tracy Powell - 9 years ago

The current solutions for this idea do not work for Salesforce orgs using the My Domain feature or on Sites pages that mask the instance. We need an Apex method that will give us either the instance or the Partner Server URL regardless of what the URL in the browser displays.

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Chris Roberts - 9 years ago

there is a way to do this in apex but it is a kludge:

PageReference pageRef = ApexPages.currentPage();

String current_url= 'https://'+pageRef.getHeaders().get('Host');

current_url += pageRef.getUrl();

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Alex Sutherland - 9 years ago

This should be marked as "Coming in the Next Releast" with the addition of the System.URL class in Summer '11!!!
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Steve Fouracre - 10 years ago

I've already done this in apex code. If you want this get in touch with me at steven.fouracre@hotmail.co.uk
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Nicolas Watroba - 10 years ago

this is a great idea!
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