How to get your SalesForce instance URL address

Often I see programmers has a challenge to problematically find what their SalesForce instance address is.

Whatever, your instance might be:
- cs2
- emea
- na5
- na4

One way of tackling this issue that you might find it useful:

You can always use the following javascript code to get the URL:






Code:
// getDomain() is called to obtain the domain portion of web app
function getDomain()
{
var url = window.location.toString();
var domain = url.match( /:\/\/(www\.)—([^\/]+)/ );
domain = domain[2]?domain[2]:'';

return domain;
}
on

6 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2008 at 12:12 AM

    Good solution Sam!

    I've taken a slightly different approach to determining the current pod URL that is perhaps a bit more pedestrian. I use the following formula in custom links/custom web tabs, S-controls, etc.:

    MID( $Api.Enterprise_Server_URL_130, 9, 18)

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    1. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM

      Can you show me an example of using this with a custom link?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM

    Great post.
    Helps me a lot.
    But i want instance in apex class.
    Can we do that?

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  3. Sam ArjmandiDecember 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM

    It's best to use relative path in Apex, as your code may be deployed in to various production environments.

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  4. Charan TejJanuary 27, 2011 at 6:09 AM

    Hi Sam,

    Can you please send me a sample example of this. I am a newbie to Salesforce. How to implement this in VF pages?

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  5. swathiAugust 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM

    hey.. i hv written a method to capture the domain url.. i wantu call that method in a trigger..I have called it like this : classname.methodname(parameter); .trigger is throwing an error which says ... 'parameter' doesn exist.. can smbdy help ...

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