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Displaying Related Lists for Custom Objects

Displaying custom objects and their related lists with Visualforce is very simple.

Suppose you have three custom objects: MyChildObject, MyMasterObject, and MyLookupObject. MyChildObject has a master-detail relationship with MyMasterObject (which is the master). MyLookupObject also has a Lookup relationship with MyChildObject.

If you want to create a Visualforce page that displays the related list for MyMasterObject, use the following markup:

For this page to display the related list data, the ID of a valid custom object record with a custom relationship must be specified as a query parameter in the URL for the page, for example, http://na3.salesforce.com/myCustomRelatedList?id=a00x00000003ij0.

Although MyLookupObject uses a different type of relationship, the syntax is identical: