Get instance domain in Custom Button

Question

For my custom button with Content Source = URL I use following formula text to get instance domain:

LEFT($Api.Partner_Server_URL_390, FIND('/services', $Api.Partner_Server_URL_390))

But when I click the button it navigated me to following URL that is includes necessary part with encoded domain:

Please assist, what I do wrong? How I can just go to domain URL when I click the button?

From your second link, it seems you are forwarding to the same domain. In this case you don't need instance name, you can use relative path. See this SFSE link salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/3816/… — Saroj Bera
– Saroj Bera, Commented Feb 20, 2017 at 11:25
We need to go to visualforce page with URL that starts with vfirst.eu6.visual.force.com where "vfirst" - namespace of our developer instance. Relative URL will get start as eu6.visual.force.com (with it we get "Page does not exist" error). So we need make some additional manipulations with URL (add namespace) that we can do only if it is absolute. — Colombo
– Colombo, Commented Feb 20, 2017 at 11:33

Rahul Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-20 10:34:10Z

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Link manipulation doesn't work properly with Content Source as URL, URL type OnClick JavaScript is advised to use for such requirement.

Following works for me:

var baseUrl = "{!LEFT($Api.Partner_Server_URL_390, 
    FIND('/services', $Api.Partner_Server_URL_390))}";

alert("baseUrl: " + baseUrl);

Output:

baseUrl: https://forcetrekker-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com/

Added:

For navigation withing Salesforce, you can use relativeURL with URL as Content Source.

answered Feb 20, 2017 at 10:04

Rahul Sharma

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Adrian Larson · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-20 01:07:07Z

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Some might wanna try this too, to get a base URL in JS for Custom Button

var baseURL = '{! URLFOR("[restofurl]" + [anyvariabletoadd]) }';

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answered Sep 19, 2019 at 21:02

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