Understand the structure of all the URLs in Salesforce

Important notes on the URLs in Salesforce:

Instances:

Salesforce’s organizations reside on multiple instances,

To find out what instance you’re on, once you logged into Salesforce, have a look at the address bar;

You’ll notice the URL starts with something like:

na1 - North America #1

na2 - North America #2

na3 - North America #3

na4 - North America #4

na5 - North America #5

emea - Europe, Middle East, Africa

ap - Asia, Pacific

cs2 - Sandbox #1

cs3 - Sandbox #2

https://xyz.salesforce.com

Where xyz is the name of the instance your organization is on.

Objects	Objects’ code
Accounts	001
Contacts	003
Users	005
Leads	00Q
Cases	500
Solutions	501
Reports	00O
Opportunities	006
Campaigns	701
Products	01t
Setup	Objects’ code
Setup
Apps	02u
Custom Labels	101
Packages	033
Workflow Rules	01Q
Tasks	01V
Email Alerts	01W
Field Updates	04Y
Outbound Messages	04k
Apex Classes	01p
Static Resources	081
Sites	0DM/o
S-Controls	01N
Home Page Layouts	02T
All Custom Report Types	070
Visualforce Pages	066
Email Templates	00X
Letterheads	016
Mail Merge Templates	01H
Analytic Snapshots	0A0
Approval Processes	p/process/ProcessDefinitionSetup?
Email Services	email/admin/listEmailServicesFunction.apexp?
Visualforce Components	apexpages/setup/listApexComponent.apexp?
Roles	setup/user/roleSplash.jsp?
Profiles	setup/ui/profilelist.jsp?
Public Groups	p/own/OrgPublicGroupsPage?
Queues	p/own/OrgQueuesPage?
Sharing Settings	p/own/OrgSharingDetail?
Company Information	your org id
Storage Usage	setup/org/orgstorageusage.jsp?id=your org id
Debug Logs	p/setup/layout/ApexDebugLogEdit?
Triggers	p/setup/layout/ApexTriggerList?type=Account
Contact Page Layout	ui/setup/layout/PageLayouts?type=Contact
Search Layouts	ui/setup/layout/ListLayouts?type=Account
Record Types	ui/setup/rectype/RecordTypes?type=Account

Basic action URLs

Use the following URLs to perform the listed operations on a specific object. Note this is fundamental to then understand how to create internal custom links.

Object’s overview page

https://[instance].salesforce.com/[Objects’ code]/o

ie: https://emea.salesforce.com/001

Create a new record

https://[instance].salesforce.com/[Objects’ code]/e

ie: https://emea.salesforce.com/001/e

Edit a record

https://[instance].salesforce.com/[recordID]/e

ie: https://emea.salesforce.com/0037000000g9mK4/e

Clone a record

https://[instance].salesforce.com/[recordID]/e?clone

Delete a record

https://[instance].salesforce.com/setup/own/deleteredirect.jsp?delID=[recordID]