Use Actual Related List Labels about sfdc-related-files-lightning HOT 3 CLOSED

I am of the opinion this is impossible to determine dynamically.

• The Apex SObject Describe certainly does not provide the child relationship labels, only API names.
• The User Interface API only provides what Apex Describe provides.
• The Metadata API, although provides info about Related Lists in Layouts, neither provides the expected API name and does not provide any labels either.

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According to forward-looking statement by Kamyar Seradjfar, Salesforce is working on a Lists API that would provide more metadata information about related lists. It's yet to be seen whether this new API will provide the related list label, but one can be hopeful.

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Through a combination of Tooling API and Apex SObject Describe info, I've been able to determine either the related list labels, or very nearly close to it, for both standard and custom fields.

For standard fields, I use the Custom Relationship Name:

For custom fields, I use Tooling API:

Oddly, unfortunately, frustratingly, the way to determine the related list labels is different for standard and custom fields so the solution is a more complex than I'd like, but it works.

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