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# Select SObject

**`ltng:selectSObject`**

Sends the `recordId` of an object when you select the object in the UI.

**For Use In**

Lightning Experience, Experience Builder Sites, Salesforce Mobile App

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Fire this event when you want to select an object, for example, when you are displaying a list of records and you want another component to display the selected record. To select an object, set the record ID on the `recordId` attribute. Optionally, specify a channel for this event so that your components can select if they want to listen to particular event messages. Using a channel is useful if you want to put multiple components on a page and you want to separate them into channels to prevent conflicts.

```javascript
selectedObj: function(component, event) {
 var selectedObjEvent = $A.get("e.ltng:selectSObject");
 selectedObjEvent.setParams({
          "recordId": "0061a000004x8e1",
          "channel": "AccountsChannel"
 });
 selectedObjEvent.fire();
}
```


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## Attributes

| Name       | Description                                                                                                                                 | Type   | Default | Required                                     |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| `channel`  | Represents the channel name. Specify this attribute if you want particular components to process some event messages while ignoring others. | string |         |                                              |
| `recordId` | The record ID associated with the record to select.                                                                                         | string |         | ![Yes](https://developer.salesforce.com/media/check.png) |

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