Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Use Cases for the commercepayments Namespace
Connect in Apex
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Communities
Email
Metadata
Retrieving and Deploying Metadata
Supported Metadata Types
Security Considerations
Testing Metadata Deployments
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Files
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Salesforce Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Flows
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Language Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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Supported Metadata Types

Apex supports a subset of metadata types and components.

Metadata access in Apex is limited to types and components that support the use cases described in Metadata. Apps and packages can use the metadata feature in Apex to retrieve and deploy the following metadata types and components:

  • Records of custom metadata types
  • Layouts