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Merge Fields for S-Controls

A merge field is a field you can put in an email template, mail merge template, custom link, or formula to incorporate values from a record.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic
Available in: Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
Important
Important Visualforce pages supersede s-controls. Organizations that haven't previously used s-controls can’t create them. Existing s-controls are unaffected and can still be edited.

Because s-controls are the source of your object-level help content, you can use merge fields or other functions to personalize the experience. For example, you can design the custom help to address the user directly by adding the user’s name to the help page when it displays.

Tips

  • To reference a file that you uploaded in the Filename field as part of a custom s-control, select Custom S-Control from the Select Field Type drop-down list, and choose Custom S-Control URL to get the merge field for it. For a Java applet, you can also use the {!SControl_JavaCodebase} and {!SControl_JavaArchive} merge fields.
  • To insert activity merge fields, select Event or Task from the Select Field Type drop-down list. Salesforce automatically encodes the text from any merge field you insert into a link.

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