Referencing Org Data

Custom Labels

You can reference custom labels using the $Label global variable.

Label references will automatically be translated to the current user's language.

Object result = expression.Evaluator.run('$Label.c.MyCustomLabel');
Object result = expression.Evaluator.run('$Label.namespace.MyCustomLabel');

Custom Metadata

You can reference custom metadata records using the $CustomMetadata global variable.

To access the data of a custom metadata record, you need to specify the type, the record name, and the field:

Object result = expression.Evaluator.run('$CustomMetadata.MyCustomMetadataType.MyCustomMetadataRecord.MyField__c');

Static Resources

You can reference static resources using the $Resource global variable.

This will return the URL where the static resource is hosted.

Object result = expression.Evaluator.run('$Resource.MyStaticResourceName');

Current User

You can reference information about the current user through the $User global variable.

Available references are:

• DefaultCurrency
• FirstName
• Language
• LastName
• Locale
• Name
• TimeZone
• Email

Object result = expression.Evaluator.run('$User.FirstName');

User Settings

You can reference user settings using the $UserSettings global variable.

This global variable wraps all properties of the ConnectApi.UserSettings class, so please reference the documentation for that class for available properties.

Object result = expression.Evaluator.run('$UserSettings.hasChatter');

Time Zone

The timeZone property of the $UserSettings global variable returns a map containing name and gmtOffset properties.

Object result = expression.Evaluator.run('$UserSettings.timeZone.name');
Object gmtOffset = expression.Evaluator.run('$UserSettings.timeZone.gmtOffset');

Organization

You can reference information about the current organization through the $Organization global variable.

Available references are:

• OrgId
• Name

Permission

Allows you to reference information about the current user’s custom permission access.

$Permission.MyCustomPermissionName # Returns true if the user has access to the custom permission, false otherwise.