Currency Formatting In Visualforce Page

Friday, December 28, 2012

Well few days ago while working with a Visualforce page I came across a requirement of showing currency field using proper currency formatting.


For Example

• 6000 should appear as $6,000.00 in the vf page

After checking the standard Salesforce tags I was unable to find a solution. but somehow figured out that <apex:param> tag can be exploited here.

So do the currency formatting in a vf page you can use the below markup.

<apex:outputText value="${0, number, ###,###,###,##0.00}">  
      <apex:param value="{!Account.Amount__c}"/>  
 </apex:outputText>  

Hoping this helps for your currency formatting need!

Get SobjectType From Salesforce ID

Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Salesforce Winter 13 arrived with loads of new methods and upgrades.
From the long list of methods, Salesforce also  has provided a new method "getSObjectType()" for ID data type. This comes with lot relief as prior to API 26.0 there were no such method available by which we can get the sObject Type from Id of the sObject, instead we have to describe every object and match the prefix with the given sObject. A very resource hungry process.

 Map<String,Schema.SObjectType> gd = Schema.getGlobalDescribe();  
 Schema.DescribeSObjectResult r = gd.get(sObj).getDescribe();  
 String tempName = r.getName();  
 String tempPrefix = r.getKeyPrefix();  
 String ObjId= [SELECT Id FROM Account LIMIT 1];  
 String tPrefix = ObjId.subString(0,3);  
 //Get the Sobject Type  
 String objectType = keyPrefixMap.get(tPrefix);  

                                                                                                                            *above code is no longer needed



But with arrival of Winter 13 / 26.0 API you can directly get the Sobject Type By calling the "getSObjectType()" method.

/*IMPORTANT : replace "sObjId" with your sobject Id, you need not to query the record again,   
 just use the Id field from your record set/ record*/  
 Id sObjId = [SELECT Id FROM Account LIMIT 1].Id;  
 Schema.SObjectType token = sObjId.getSObjectType();  

This new method will be really helpful in writing dynamic apex code for triggers and batches and even for visualforce controllers.