Question

I need to get a list of users whose role has the first 5 char as ‘Sales’
I want to use this on a apex class

My first thought was to use something like this

 select id from user where UserRoleId__r like 'Sales%'

But this throws an error

 No such column 'UserRoleId__r' on entity 'User'.

Do i need to query the role object to get all ids and then query the user object using those ids?

is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to fix the name of the User Role column in your search. Here’s is the correct syntax:

select id from user where userrole.name like 'Sales%'

You only need to append the __r suffix to relationships in queries when the object is custom. For built in objects, you only need the name of the object (no __r).