Accessing List View Without Tabs
Have you ever been working with an object that doesn’t have a tab and you just want to look at the List View? For instance, you have a parent object of Account
with a child object of Foo__c
. Foo__c
has a master-detail relationship with Account
, so instead of making a tab for Foo__c
, you just have a related list on the Account
page layout. This list is useful, but it is only valuable actually viewing the Foo__c
objects related to each specific account. If you are doing some troubleshooting, there can be several benefits of viewing a list of all Foo__c
objects. Luckily, there is a very simple way to do this with a minor URL modification.
Example
Let’s go over the example above. First, let’s note how in this instance, the Foo__c
object does not have a tab:
Next, we will want to navigate to any Account
and view the related list of the Foo__c
objects.
Navigate to the detail page of any specific object. I will select FOO-0001.
The important thing to note is the url – https://na15.salesforce.com/a02i0000008XdxQ
. An important thing to understand is how the Id of an object is built. For our scenario, as Daniel Ballinger on the Salesforce StackExchange explains, “the first 3 characters are the key prefix that identify the object type”. This means, for the object Foo__c
, the Id prefix is a02
. This gives us the ability to modify the URL to https://na15.salesforce.com/a02
, which will subsequently show the List Views for the Foo__c
object.
Other Uses
Some other minor uses of this functionality include:
- New Object – Add a
/e
to the end of the URL. From the example above, the URL would behttps://na15.salesforce.com/a02/e
- Recent Objects – Add a
/o
to the end of the URL. From the example above, the URL would behttps://na15.salesforce.com/a02/o