RecentlyViewed

Represents metadata entities typically found in Setup such as page layout definitions, workflow rule definitions, and email templates that the current user has recently viewed.

This object is available in the Tooling API version 33.0 and later.

Supported SOAP Calls

query(), update()

Supported REST HTTP Methods

GET

Special Usage Rules

The RecentlyViewed object supports the following metadata entities:

Apex classes
Apex triggers
Approval processes
Apps
Custom report types
Email templates
Fields
Objects
Page layouts
Permission sets
Profiles
Static resources
Tabs
Users
Validation rules
Visualforce pages
Visualforce components
Workflow email alerts
Workflow field updates
Workflow outbound messages
Workflow rules
Workflow tasks

Fields

Field	Details
Alias	Type string Properties Filter, Group,Nillable, Sort Description The alias on the item.
Email	Type email Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The email address on the item.
FirstName	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The first name on the item.
Id	Type ID Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description The ID of the recently viewed item.
IsActive	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description Indicates whether the recently viewed item is an active user (true) or not (false). This field contains a value only if the recently viewed item is a user.
LastName	Type string Properties Filter, Group,Nillable, Sort Description The last name on the item.
LastReferencedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed an item related to this item.
LastViewedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed this item. If this value is null, this item might only have been referenced (see LastReferencedDate) and not viewed.
Name	Type string Properties Filter, Group,Nillable, Sort Description If the recently viewed item is a user, this is the user’s name. Specifically, it’s the concatenation of the FirstName and LastName field values.
NetworkId	Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The ID of the community that this group is part of. This field is available only if Salesforce Communities is enabled in your organization.
Phone	Type phone Properties Filter, Group,Nillable, Sort Description The phone number on the item.
ProfileId	Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description If the recently viewed item is a user, this is the user’s profile ID.
RelatedObject	Type picklist Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort Description The object that the recently viewed item is related to. For example, if the recently viewed item is an Account Custom Field, then the related object will be Account. Not all recently viewed items will have a related object.
Title	Type string Properties Filter, Group,Nillable, Sort Description If the recently viewed item is a user, this is the user’s title. For example, CFO or CEO.
Type	Type picklist Properties Filter, Group, Nillable,Restricted picklist, Sort Description The sObject type for this recently viewed item.
UserRoleId	Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The ID of the user role associated with this object.

Usage

This object provides a heterogeneous list of different metadata types and consists of recently viewed records. A record is considered viewed when the user sees the details associated with it, but not when the user sees it in a list with other records. Use this object to programmatically construct a list of recently viewed items specific to the current user, for example, on a custom user interface or for search auto-complete options. You can also retrieve a filtered list of records by object type (Type). The RecentlyViewed data is periodically truncated down to 200 records per object.

Use this query in your code to retrieve a list of all the records that were recently viewed. The results are ordered from most to least recent.

1SELECT Id, Name
2FROM RecentlyViewed
3WHERE LastViewedDate !=null
4ORDER BY LastViewedDate DESC

Use this query to retrieve data that was either viewed or referenced, but only for a limited set of objects.

1SELECT Id, Name
2FROM RecentlyViewed 
3WHERE Type IN ('CustomEntityDefinition', 'CustomFieldDefinition')
4ORDER BY LastViewedDate DESC