Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Data Types and Variables
Control Flow Statements
Classes, Objects, and Interfaces
Working with Data in Apex
Working with sObjects
Data Manipulation Language
SOQL and SOSL Queries
SOQL For Loops
sObject Collections
Dynamic Apex
Understanding Apex Describe Information
Using Field Tokens
Understanding Describe Information Permissions
Describing sObjects Using Schema Method
Describing Tabs Using Schema Methods
Accessing All sObjects
Accessing All Data Categories Associated with an sObject
Dynamic SOQL
Dynamic SOSL
Dynamic DML
Apex Security and Sharing Model
Custom Settings
Document Your Apex Code
Running Apex
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
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Describing Tabs Using Schema Methods

You can get metadata information about the apps and their tabs available in the Salesforce user interface by executing a describe call in Apex. Also, you can get more detailed information about each tab. Use the describeTabs Schema method and the getTabs method in Schema.DescribeTabResult, respectively.

This example shows how to get the tab sets for each app. The example then obtains tab describe metadata information for the Sales app. For each tab, metadata information includes the icon URL, whether the tab is custom or not, and colors among others. The tab describe information is written to the debug output.