Record Types & Page Layout Strategy 💬 In plain words: Record Types let one object act like different forms for different teams. Different picklist values, page layouts, and processes — same Account object. Use them for truly different business processes. Not for cosmetic layout changes. 📌 Example: One Account object, two businesses: 'Retail Customer' record type shows B2C picklist values and layout. 'Enterprise Client' shows contract fields and a different sales process. Same table, two costumes. 🧠One object, many costumes: A Record Type is a costume on the same object — different picklists and layouts, same table underneath. Concept Record Types split one object into business variants. • Each type can carry its own subset of picklist values, its own business process — Lead, Case and Opportunity stages — and its own page layout per profile. • Lightning has changed the calculus. Dynamic Forms and conditional comp...
Here is sample to get photo of logged in user in visualforce. Querying on user object with FullPhotoUrl field shows photo of the user in salesforce.
Visualforce page:-
Controller:-
public class Sample {
public String photoURL {get;set;}
public sample() {
photoURL = [SELECT Id, FullPhotoUrl FROM User WHERE ID =: UserInfo.getUserId()].FullPhotoUrl;
}
<apex:page controller="Sample">
<apex:pageBlock >
<apex:image value="{!photoURL}"/>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:page>Controller:-
public class Sample {
public String photoURL {get;set;}
public sample() {
photoURL = [SELECT Id, FullPhotoUrl FROM User WHERE ID =: UserInfo.getUserId()].FullPhotoUrl;
}
}