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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › How to Update Record in Custom metadata type through Salesforce Apex Class?

    Tagged: Custom Metadata Type, Metadata API, Salesforce Apex Class

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      How to Update Record in Custom metadata type through Salesforce Apex Class?

      Posted by Piyush on July 8, 2016 at 10:25 AM

      Hi All,

      How to update record in Custom metadata type through Apex class?

      Esteve replied 7 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
      • Custom Metadata Type
      • Metadata API
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    • Jogender

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      July 8, 2016 at 10:46 AM

      Hello Piyush,

      You can’t update protected types and records in custom metadata programmatically. You can modify protected types and records only by performing a package upgrade.

      You can’t update public types and records by using Apex directly. To modify records from Apex, you must make calls to the Metadata API.

    • veda hebbar

      Member
      March 15, 2018 at 12:49 PM

      Hi,

      How to use Metadata API to update "Custom Metadata type" records.

      Thanks,

      Vedashri

    • Esteve

      Member
      January 3, 2019 at 1:26 PM

      Yes you can:

      • https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.meta/apexcode/apex_class_Metadata_CustomMetadata.htm
      • https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/192018/how-do-i-update-a-namespaced-custom-metadata-type-record-after-making-a-package

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