Comments on: Making Owner available in Formulas

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:33:13 +0000

I’d have to see your code or data to know what’s going wrong.

I’d suggest writing some code via the System Log to test what’s happening, much along the line of the tests. Try and retrieve a record and look at the value of the link.

Boy, it’s been so long since I wrote that blog that I don’t even remember writing it! :)

By: Gauravp

Gauravp — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:48:13 +0000

I tried your technique and could access and insert Owner name in the formula field. However, no values are being returned when I test it out. Anything I am doing wrong? attached link has the screenshot. http://tinypic.com/r/2qbgcvk/5

By: Niels

Niels — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:14:15 +0000

Hi again John,

since I like your blog and keep finding useful stuff here, I’m happy to share with you a small improvement I did to your code. The test method failed on my org, since it was using an inactive user. Therefore I modified line 6 like this:

User[] users = [select Id from User where Isactive= True limit 2];

Now it works fine. May be you want to publish this.

Thanks again,
Niels