SOAP API Developer Guide

Introduction to SOAP API
About SOAP API
Release Notes
Quick Start: SOAP API
Core Data Types Used in API Calls
Tooling API Objects in the Enterprise WSDL
API Call Basics
Field Types
Primitive Data Types
Error Handling
Security and the API
Authorization Through External Client Apps or Connected Apps and OAuth 2.0
SOAP API End-of-Life Policy
Using the Partner WSDL
Obtaining the Partner WSDL File
Calls and the Partner WSDL
Objects, Fields, and Field Data and the Partner WSDL
Queries and the Partner WSDL
Namespaces in the Partner WSDL
Package Versions and the Partner WSDL
User Interface Themes
Examples Using the Partner WSDL
Reference
Using the API with Salesforce Features
Glossary
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Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

User Interface Themes

Back in the Winter ’06 release, Salesforce started supporting multiple user interface themes, allowing you to use different sets of icons and colors for the user interface. But these user interface themes do not apply when your org is using Lightning Experience.
Available in: Salesforce Classic and earlier

Two user interface themes match the earlier iterations of Salesforce.

  • Theme3—The “Salesforce Classic 2010 user interface theme.” This interface was previously referred to as “Salesforce” or “new user interface theme.” You might also be familiar with it as the Salesforce Aloha interface.
  • Theme2—The “Salesforce Classic 2005 user interface theme.” This interface was previously referred to as “Salesforce Classic” or the “classic user interface theme.”

The getUserInfo() call returns a getUserInfoResult object, which includes the userUiSkin property. This property informs you of the user’s current user interface theme.

Use the describeQuickActions(), describeTabs(), and describeTheme() calls and their return types to get information on theme icons and colors.

Style sheets are available to mimic the look and feel of the older user interfaces. For more information, see Styling Visualforce Pages in the Visualforce Developer's Guide. But if you’re planning to switch to Lightning Experience, consider the Lightning Component framework, our new UI framework. See the “Lightning Components” module in the Develop for Lightning Experience Trailhead trail to learn more.