WebLink

Represents a custom link to a URL or S-control. Available in the Tooling APIfrom API version 34.0 or later.

Supported SOAP Calls

getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search()

Supported REST HTTP Methods

GET

Fields

Field Name	Details
Description	Type string Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description A description of the WebLink.
DisplayType	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Restricted picklist, Sort Description Represents how this WebLink is rendered. Valid values: `link` for a hyperlink `button` for a button `massAction` for a button attached to a related list
EncodingKey	Type string Properties Filter, Sort Description Valid values include: `UTF-8`—Unicode (UTF-8) `ISO-8859-1`—General US & Western Europe (ISO-8859–1, ISO-LATIN-1) `Shift_JIS`—Japanese (Shift-JIS) `ISO-2022-JP`—Japanese (JIS) `EUC-JP`—Japanese (EUC-JP) `x-SJIS_0213`—Japanese (Shift-JIS_2004) `ks_c_5601-1987`—Korean (ks_c_5601-1987) `Big5`—Traditional Chinese (Big5) `GB2312`—Simplified Chinese (GB2312) `Big5-HKSCS`—Traditional Chinese Hong Kong (Big5–HKSCS)
EntityDefinition	Type EntityDefinition Properties Filter, Group, Sort. Description Required. Available in version 34.0. The entity definition for the object associated with this WebLink.
EntityDefinitionId	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort. Description Required. ID of the record associated with this WebLink. The record’s object type is in EntityDefinition.
FullName	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort. Description The full name of the associated metadata object in Metadata API. Query this field only if the query result contains no more than one record. Otherwise, an error is returned. If more than one record exists, use multiple queries to retrieve the records. This limit protects performance.
HasMenubar	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort. Description If OpenType is `newWindow`, whether to show the browser menu bar for the popup window (`true`, or not (`false`). For other values of OpenType, don't specify a value here.
HasScrollbars	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort. Description If the value of OpenType is `newWindow`, whether to show the scroll bars for the window (`true`) or not (`false`). For other values of OpenType, don’t specify a value here.
HasToolbar	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort. Description If the value of OpenType is `newWindow`, whether to show the browser toolbar for the window (`true`) or not (`false`). For other values of OpenType, don’t specify a value here.
Height	Type int Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort. Description Required if the value of OpenType is `newWindow`. Height in pixels of the window opened by this WebLink. For other values of OpenType, don’t specify a value here.
IsResizable	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort. Description If the value of OpenType is `newWindow`, whether to allow resizing of the window (`true`) or not (`false`). For other values of OpenType, don’t specify a value here.
LinkType	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Restricted picklist, Sort Description Required. Represents whether the content of this WebLink is specified by a URL, an sControl, a JavaScript code block, or a Visualforce page. `url` `sControl` `javascript` `page` `flow`—Reserved for future use.
MasterLabel	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Master label for this object. This display value is the internal label that is not translated. Limit: 240 characters.
Metadata	Type `mns`:WebLink Properties Filter, Group, idLookup, Sort Description The metadata for this object as defined in the Metadata API. Query this field only if the query result contains no more than one record. Otherwise, an error is returned. If more than one record exists, use multiple queries to retrieve the records. This limit protects performance.
Name	Type string Properties Filter, Group, idLookup, Sort Description Required. Name to display on the page.
NamespacePrefix	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort. Description The namespace prefix associated with this object. Each Developer Edition organization that creates a managed package has a unique namespace prefix. Limit: 15 characters. You can refer to a component in a managed package by using the `namespacePrefix__componentName` notation. The namespace prefix can have one of the following values: In Developer Edition organizations, the namespace prefix is set to the namespace prefix of the organization for all objects that support it. There is an exception if an object is in an installed managed package. In that case, the object has the namespace prefix of the installed managed package. This field’s value is the namespace prefix of the Developer Edition organization of the package developer. In organizations that are not Developer Edition organizations, NamespacePrefix is only set for objects that are part of an installed managed package. There is no namespace prefix for all other objects.
OpenType	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description Valid values: `newWindow` `sidebar` `noSidebar` `replace` `onClickJavaScript`
Position	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort Description If the value of OpenType is `newWindow`, how the new window should be displayed. Otherwise, don’t specify a value. Valid values: `fullScreen` `none` `topLeft`
RequireRowSelection	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description If the value of OpenType is `massAction`, indicates whether to require individual row selection to execute the action for this button (`true`) or not (`false`). Otherwise, leave this field empty.
Scontrol	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description If the value of LinkType is `sControl`, this field represents the name of the sControl. Otherwise, leave this field empty.
ShowsLocation	Type boolean Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description If the value of OpenType is `newWindow`, indicates whether to show the browser location bar for the window (`true`) or not (`false`). Otherwise, leave this field empty.
ShowsStatus	Type boolean Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description If the value of OpenType is `newWindow`, show the browser status bar for the window (`true`. Otherwise, don’t specify a value.
Url	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description If the value of LinkType is `url`, Url represents the URL value. If the value of LinkType is `javascript`, Urlrepresents the JavaScript content. For other values of LinkType, leave this field empty. Content must be escaped in a manner consistent with XML parsing rules. Required. URL of the page to link to. Can include fields as tokens within the URL. Limit: 1,024 KB.
Width	Type int Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description Width in pixels of the window opened by this WebLink. Required if the value of OpenType is `newWindow`. Otherwise, leave this field empty.

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WebLink

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