RecentlyViewed | Object Reference for the Salesforce Platform

Supported Calls

query(), update()update()

Special Usage Rules

The RecentlyViewed object doesn’t support the Event, Task, Report, KnowledgeArticle, and Article objects.

The RecentlyViewed object supports only certain objects, and supports list views only for those supported objects. Supported objects have the fields LastReferencedDate and LastViewedDate.

RecentlyViewed records for users who are members of several communities can’t be retrieved automatically into a map via Apex. This is because records of a user with different networks can result in duplicate IDs that maps don’t support.

Note

Fields

Field	Details
Alias	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The alias on the record.
Email	Type email Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The email address on the record.
FirstName	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The first name on the record. If the recently viewed record is a user, the value is the user’s first name.
Id	Type ID Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description The ID of the recently viewed record or list view.
IsActive	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description Indicates whether the recently viewed record is an active user (`true`) or not (`false`). This field contains a value only if the recently viewed record is a user.
LastName	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The last name on the record.
LastReferencedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The timestamp when the current user last accessed this record, a record related to this record, or a list view.
LastViewedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The timestamp when the current user last viewed this record or list view. If this value is null, the user might have only accessed this record or list view (LastReferencedDate) but not viewed it.
Name	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The name on the recently viewed record or list view. If the recently viewed record is a user, contact, or lead, the value is a concatenation of the `firstname` and `lastname` field values.
NetworkId	Type reference Properties Filter,Group, Nillable, Sort Description ID of the Experience Cloud site that this group is part of. This field is available only if digital experiences is enabled in your org. You can add a NetworkId only when creating a group. You can’t change or add a NetworkId for an existing group. This field is available in API version 27.0 and later.
Phone	Type phone Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The phone number on the record.
ProfileId	Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description If the recently viewed record is a user, this value is the user’s profile ID. This is a relationship field. Relationship Name Profile Relationship Type Lookup Refers To Profile
Title	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description If the recently viewed record is a user, this value is the title of the user; for example CFO or CEO.
Type	Type picklist Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted, picklistSort Description The object type for this recently viewed record or list view. Valid values include any standard or custom objects that RecentlyViewed supports.
UserRoleId	Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The ID of the user role associated with this object. This is a relationship field. Relationship Name UserRole Relationship Type Lookup Refers To UserRole

Usage

This object provides a heterogeneous list of different object types. The list consists of recently viewed records, records that were recently referenced (a related record was viewed), or recently viewed list views. A record is considered viewed when the user sees the record details, but not when the user sees the record 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, use this object 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 and 200 list views per object. RecentlyViewed data is retained for 90 days, after which it’s removed on a periodic basis.

Use this query in your code to retrieve a list of all the records and list views 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 ('Account', 'Contact', 'Plan__c')
4ORDER BY LastViewedDate DESC

This query retrieves a list of all recently viewed contacts with contact-specific fields, such as the contact’s account name, and the custom website field. Records are ordered from most to least recent.

1SELECT Account.Name, Title, Email, Phone, Website__c
2FROM Contact
3WHERE LastViewedDate != NULL 
4ORDER BY LastViewedDate DESC