Get Salesforce content files base URL via Apex

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As per this salesforce help document, the content files base URL is different compare to the salesforce org domain URL.

The domain URL formats with or without enhanced domains are as follows

//with enhanced domains
Login: MyDomainName.my.salesforce.com 
VF page: MyDomainName--PackageName.vf.force.com 
Content(files): MyDomainName.file.force.com

//without enhanced domains
Login: MyDomainName.my.salesforce.com 
VF page: MyDomainName--PackageName.visualforce.com 
Content(files): MyDomainName--c.documentforce.com

In the VF page context, we can do mapping of the VF page URL i.e Url.getSalesforceBaseUrl() and Content Page URL, and get the content URL. But in the case of Webservice context URL.getOrgDomainUrl() or Url.getSalesforceBaseUrl() is the same with or without enhanced domains. So we cant keep mapping and get content files URL via apex dynamically in apex.

How to find out content files URL using Url.getSalesforceBaseUrl() OR URL.getOrgDomainUrl() through apex?

Best Answer

You can use the DomainCreator class for this. It will return the correct URL no matter if the enhanced domains were enabled or not:

DomainCreator.getContentHostname()

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According to this post, the answer to your question about using content packs would be "no".

On the IdeaExchange you'll find a submission titled Allow Content Deliveries to be programmatically generated via Apex which has some related links on it you may also want to look at. Regardless, I believe this "idea" covers the gist of your question.

It seems to me that you might want to go and vote for this idea.

With a bit more effort, I believe I've found something in another post that you might be able to utilize the techniques from for getting a download link in it to accomplish your task. There are references to a blog post titled Salesforce: How to make a Document public? and some other useful discussion.

Based on the above referenced post, I'd say the answer to your final question is "yes". Implementation will be a matter of how you design your trigger and email template(s).

For future reference, you might find FindSF Info to be a very helpful search engine.

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