{"id":1860,"date":"2016-05-31T07:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:18:57","slug":"mass-deletion-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/2016\/05\/31\/mass-deletion-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Deletion of Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when we want to perform mass deletion of records on Salesforce object records. We might come across a scenario where we want to perform Mass delete of records on large number of records of particular object which would delete records in bulk. We checked in Salesforce and we found that this functionality is available in Salesforce only for standard Salesforce objects. What if I want this functionality for records of Custom Objects?<\/p>\n

If you are aware of Salesforce Apex and Visualforce development knowledge you can use below set of code to get this done. Below is the function for Mass Delete which calls the action and performs deletion of records.<\/p>\n

Steps to Mass delete records of a particular object in Salesforce:<\/p>\n

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  1. Write a Mass Delete extension\/Controller using Apex:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In below code example, we have created Mass Delete<\/strong> button for deleting records of Account<\/strong> object. You can refer this code to do it for your custom object. Create a new Extension to Account object with name \u201cMassDelete\u201d and you can refer the below code.<\/p>\n

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    1. Create a Visual Force page to display list of records which you wants to Mass Delete:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Bind the above controller to Visual Force page and use standard controller list which allows you to create Visual force page that can display or act on a set of records along with RecordSetVar which not only indicates that the page uses a list controller, it also indicates the variable name of the record collection. You can set the standardController<\/em><\/strong> to the API name of the object you want to have this functionality for. Eg. If you want it for Contacts make it \u201cstandardController=Contacts<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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      1. Add the Mass Delete Button on the UI (Tab for the object)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n