[SalesForce] URL Hack “Back to List” Links

Is there anyway to URL hack the back to link portion of default pages. Often time the navigation is incorrect and sending users to random portions of the site. Is there some sort of session variable being stored or something? enter image description here

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That back to List is a very confusing part of Salesforce. Most people assume it is a breadcrumb to get back to the previous page but it is not, it remembers the last "List" you viewed and will take you back to that. For most admin users this actually links back to something in the setup pages.

It works as it should, but many question it's usefulness all together as it is very confusing.

See this link: https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000Bp4fAAC

It's a common complaint for the last 7 years.

My advise for now. Tell your users to ignore it all together and use the back button on the browser. Unfortunately there isn't anything you can do to remove/change it currently.

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[SalesForce] Visualforce Page Loses Search Parameters when Going Back from Detail

Personally I'd load the detail on the same page using ajax to keep it all in one place and easy to use, plus easier to code and maybe more stable, all you'd need is an <apex:outputPanel> or similar which wraps an <apex:detail> tag and you should be good.

However, if you really want to navigate to the other page and then back again you could serialise the search parameters and pass them through using the retURL parameter when you call the detail page. Then when your page loads and that parameter is present you could parse it and perform the relevant search.

[SalesForce] What callback URL to use to redirect back to VF page from External system

It depends on the OAuth2 implementation that you're authenticating against, but generically speaking, login.salesforce.com should work for production instances, test.salesforce.com should work for sandbox instances. What happens is that when you hit either login server, if there's a path afterwards, the login server tries to forward them to their existing session.

For your managed package, your callback URL should look like this:

https://login.salesforce.com/apex/myns__mypage

Or for sandboxes:

https://test.salesforce.com/apex/myns__mypage

Since most OAuth2 implementations only allow one callback URL, you'll need to have two separate "apps", one for production, and one for sandboxes.

Your VF page should query the Organization object beforehand to determine if you're in a sandbox or not.

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