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SunnyButCloudySunnyButCloudy 

VF Page outputField function help

Hello,

 

I'm fairly new to VF development and am running into a small issue.  I have a custom object that has a lookup to an account and a lookup to a contact (+ other custom fields). 

 

I built a VF page to pull these fields and overall page is rendered as PDF.  The problem I have is that the account and contact fields both show up as links (and therefore underlined and in blue).  Is there a way I can just make them come out as normal text?  I tried using outputText function, but then the IDs come out, instead of the account and contact name.

 

Any help is highly appreciated.  Thank you x 100 in advance.

 

 

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jwetzlerjwetzler

Try using the name field on the parent object instead of the lookup field on your custom object.

 

For example, I have a custom object called "object" with lookup fields to account and opportunity called account__c and opportunity__c, respectively.  I can access the fields on those objects like this:

 

    <apex:outputField value="{!object__c.account__r.name}"/><br/>
    <apex:outputField value="{!object__c.opportunity__r.name}"/>

 

 

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jwetzlerjwetzler

Try using the name field on the parent object instead of the lookup field on your custom object.

 

For example, I have a custom object called "object" with lookup fields to account and opportunity called account__c and opportunity__c, respectively.  I can access the fields on those objects like this:

 

    <apex:outputField value="{!object__c.account__r.name}"/><br/>
    <apex:outputField value="{!object__c.opportunity__r.name}"/>

 

 

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SunnyButCloudySunnyButCloudy

Oh perfect!! Thanks Jill.  Cheers
elpaso750_develpaso750_dev

Hi,

thanks for this post, I'd have a couple of questions :

 

does this work only for emails and/or pdf output ? or also for standard VF pages ?

 

would it work only for field NAME or also other fields ? (description, desk__c) I'm asking this 'cause I did try and came up with some strange errors.

 

what I'd like to achieve is, I think, pretty simple.

 

I have two custom objects (Software__c and Tests__c) and a third custom object (test2run__c) with lookup relation to the first two objects.

 

I just wish to have a VF page for test2run__c showing the fields of one single record of the (test2run__c) and some of the fields of the related 'parent' objects

 

I did try  

 

<apex:inputField value="{!Test2run__c.Compulsory__c}"/>
<apex:inputField value="{!Test2run__c.Assigne_to_User__c}"/>
<apex:inputField value="{!Test2run__c.Completed__c}"/>
<apex:inputField value="{!Test2run__c.Test_Comments__c}"/>

and the fields for the related objects :

 

<apex:outputText value="{!test2run.Software__r.Software_to_Be_Tested__c}"/>
<apex:outputText value="{!test2run.Software__r.Version__c}"/>

and 

<apex:outputField value="{!Test2run__c.Tests__r.Name}"/>
<apex:outputField value="{!Test2run__c.Tests__r.Description__c}"/>

 

 

but getting errors on the VF page

 

thanks for any help

 

Alex