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how to determine instance in salesforce lightning

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You can find out your Salesforce Organization instance by viewing your browser address bar or viewing your Company Information. Example URL: https://ap9.salesforce.com The value before 'salesforce.com' is your Salesforce Instance. In this example the Salesforce Organization is located on NA9.

After you login to Salesforce, navigate to your web browser address bar and check the first part of URL after 'https://' and before 'lightning.force.com'. It should be two letters and a number in a format like 'xy1'. Salesforce Instance names are abbreviated for that particular region or continent.Mar 28, 2019

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How to identify elements in Salesforce Lightning?

In salesforce lightning we can define local ids, which may or may not be unique, depending upon how you are defining that. We can also add some fixed prefix or suffix with salesforce generated global ids to uniquely identifying the elements. Excerpts from Salesforce Lightning Components Developers guide:

How do I Find my Salesforce instance?

The instance your Salesforce Organization uses is indicated in the URL of your browser's address bar. The value before 'salesforce.com' is your Salesforce Instance. In this example the Salesforce Organization is located on NA9. If you are using a Sandbox the instance will differ, for example 'cs9.'

What is “instance” in relation to your Salesforce Org?

Do you know what does the term “Instance” refer to, in relation to your Salesforce Org? A “Salesforce Instance” is the data center/server that hosts your Salesforce Org. For example, ap1, eu29, na21, cs15 etc. One instance can host many orgs at a time.

How do I validate my instance in Salesforce?

To validate your instance, please visit our Trust website and type in your domain in the "Search Instance, Domain, POD or MID" search bar. If your domain will not provide an instance or comes up as not found, please contact Salesforce Support .

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What is instance type in Salesforce?

Your Salesforce instance refers to the server that your Salesforce organization lives on. Many Salesforce orgs (also referred to as an “instance”) live together on the same server, a method of server management called “multi-tenancy”. As opposed to one system living on one server, many instances live on one server.

How many Salesforce instances are there?

Salesforce Instance or POD As of July 2014, there are currently 21 Instances in North America, 2 in Asia Pacific, 4 in EMEA and 25 Sandbox Instances. A Sandbox instance is non production environment.

How do I find my apex instance URL Salesforce?

ApexPages.currentPage().getUrl() = Gives page name.ApexPages.currentPage().getHeaders().get('Host') => gives Host Id.Site.getCurrentSiteUrl() => Site URL.

How do I find my sandbox instance?

To determine which instance your Sandbox is on, log into your production org and navigate to your Sandbox List page (Search "Sandbox" in the Quick Find bar on the Setup Home Page). Your sandbox instance is listed in the Location column above.

How do I know my Salesforce instance?

To check instance name in this case, log in to Salesforce as an Admin (or if you have permission to view setup) and navigate to Setup -> Company Information. You can find your Salesforce instance in the right column below Organization Edition.

How do I create an instance in Salesforce?

StepsLog in to your Salesforce account.Click Setup at the upper-right corner.Under the Build section, click Create and select Objects.To create a custom object, click New Custom Object.Enter the name of the Custom Object in Label, Plural Label, and Object Name.More items...•

What is an instance URL?

Specifies a server instance of organization. User can view their instance URL when they open their Salesforce Org screen. This is a mandatory property. The corresponding adapter command is -IURL (or -INSTANCEURL).

What is Salesforce instance and org?

In short, a Salesforce Instance is the installation of Salesforce's software that resides on a server (or group of servers likely). An Org is your specific organization's data and meta data. Salesforce has multiple orgs residing on the same instance.

How do you know which sandbox we are using in Salesforce?

Login to the production environment and follow the below stated steps:Click on Setup.Scroll down to Administration Setup.Select the Sandbox to see the Sandbox List.

How do you know if its sandbox or production?

If you want to know that about current environment you can query IsSandbox field from Organization object. [select IsSandbox from Organization limit 1]; IsSandbox Indicates whether the current organization is a sandbox (true) or production (false) instance.

Find your Salesforce Instance information

The instance your Salesforce Organization uses is indicated in the URL of your browser's address bar. Example URL: https://na9.salesforce.com/home/home.jsp

Find instance for My Domain

If you're using My Domain for the Salesforce Organization, you will not see the instance name by looking at the browser's address bar. Alternatively, we can use Windows Command Prompt or Mac OS' terminal and run the nslookup command.

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