Category: Process Builder

Get Data From Custom Metadata Types

What are Custom Metadata Types?

Essentially, Custom Metadata Types are a replacement for List Custom Settings. But they are more than that, you can:

  • Deploy Custom Metadata Types along with their records.
  • Control the visibility or the metadata type, as well as individual records.
  • Query them using SOQL and not count against governor limits.
  • Access them in Process Builder and Validation Rules
  • For more information, see official Salesforce Documentation

Sample Code to read Custom Metadata Type records:

String queueExt = '69381';

// you can query custom metadata type using SOQL. The advantage is that this query does not count against governor limits.
CTI_Case_Queue__mdt[] queueMapping = [SELECT 
                MasterLabel, Label, DeveloperName, 
                Queue_Extension__c, Queue_Name__c 
                  FROM CTI_Case_Queue__mdt
                  WHERE Queue_Extension__c = :queueExt];

System.debug('==== queueExt: ' + queueExt);
System.debug('==== num of records: ' + queueMapping.size());

for(CTI_Case_Queue__mdt q : queueMapping)
{
 System.debug('==== MasterLabel: ' + q.MasterLabel);
 System.debug('==== Label: ' + q.Label);
 System.debug('==== DeveloperName: ' + q.DeveloperName);
 System.debug('==== Queue_Extension__c: ' + q.Queue_Extension__c);
 System.debug('==== Queue_Name__c: ' + q.Queue_Name__c);
}