How to get record type id in salesforce

Find record type id from setup menu

The record type id can be retrieved from the setup menu. The record type page will have its id in the url.

For example for account, navigate to set up -> Object Manager -> Account -> Record Types -> 'Company'

The characters after /RecordTypes/ in the url is the record type id

Find record type id in apex without using SOQL

Use this approach to get the record type for an object in apex. This does not use SOQL and you will be within SOQL query limits when you use this approach.

public static final companyRecTypeId = 
Schema.SObjectType.Account.getRecordTypeInfosByName().get('Company').getRecordTypeId();

Note: This does consume system resources so use this outside of loops for a better performance.

Find record type id using SOQL

Use this approach when you want to quickly query a record type id from developer console/ workbench/ vs code. As this requires a SOQL query, it is not recommended to use in apex.

public static final companyRecTypeId =
[Select id,name from RecordType where RecordType.Name='Company' AND SobjectType='Account'];

Here is how it can be used in the developer console query editor window

Find record type id in LWC using uiObjectInfoApi

The lightning web components can retrieve record type information via uiObjectInfoApi, no apex code is necessary. The uiObjectInfoApi returns the whole object metadata information including fields, child relationships, dependent fields etc..

Here is the code to retrieve the record type info using uiObjectInfoApi

import { LightningElement,wire } from "lwc";
import { getObjectInfo } from "lightning/uiObjectInfoApi";
import ACCOUNT_OBJECT from "@salesforce/schema/Account";

export default class RecordFormWithRecordType extends LightningElement {
    @wire(getObjectInfo, { objectApiName: ACCOUNT_OBJECT }) wireAccountData(objectInfo,error){
        if(objectInfo){
            
            let recordTypeInfo = objectInfo?.data?.recordTypeInfos;
            if(recordTypeInfo){
                let companyRecType = Object.keys(recordTypeInfo).find(rtype=>(recordTypeInfo[rtype].name === 'Company'));
                
            }
        }
    }
}
        

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