Creating" the URL using {{$Site.CurrentSiteUrl}} and a UI formula field"

Is there any reason against keeping the links generic? In Skuid, I usually just have links that look like this in a template

{{{Name}}}

or in an action to go to link

/apex/skuid__ui?page=PNT.Oppty.Detail&oppid={{{Id}}}

It is odd that those global merges aren’t working though, since I am seeing the same thing in my testing org…

Thanks Matt … Two reasons … we have a managed app and with the removing of instance names by sf I was trying to arrive at a solution. Also, we need to display a few std salesforce pages (without header and sidebar) and the relative url method in an iframe has stopped working for us. If I use a full url it does the job but obviously for us the full url only works on our dev org.

I gotcha, yeah that makes sense. It seems like I’m hitting the same issue with the merge syntax so I’ll see what product people think is going on.

I’m having the same issue too with being unable to get the merge syntax to surface. Any updates?

So the merge function {{$Site.CurrentSiteUrl}} only works in the context of Force.com sites (and maybe communities).  See the doc here.  My understanding is that we are depending on the underlying VF global variables,  which are not present for standard pages. 

Supporting this requirement may require the population of that field with some code.  Dang… 

Dang ) …

We were able to create a sf formula field on user 

LEFT($Api.Partner_Server_URL_260, FIND( ‘/services’, $Api.Partner_Server_URL_260))

This provided us with the sf domain which we need but when I use this in an iframe on a template skuid overwrites it with the skuid url and sf then blocks the iframe.

Anyway to override skuid switching the url from vanilla salesforce just this time?

I think your missing the namespace in your URL within the iFrame.   Skuid is forcing its namespace back onto the page.  You can either use the global namespace (c__) ,  or your own manage package namespace. 

Admittedly this is a shot in the dark on a Sunday night.  But I think there is merit there.