Clear, thanks. I have escalated this as a bug.

We deploy a managed package in very few but large installs and have a dozen different custom settings so creating a new custom object in lieu of each of them is not a great solution for us as it would leave all those old objects hanging.

We also like the other benefits of custom settings such as not counting against query limits and being available in formulas without having a lookup relationship consumed.

We are part of the deprecation pilot but even that leaves deprecated fields and objects in installations, only new installs are without them.

I don’t know if you have someone influential you could talk to this about, but a fix would be most welcome

Thanks for your input and help.

Niels

No creating, editing or deleting of custom settings is performed, only the select statement in my previous post.

I found this thread – maybe I am not the only one with this error:

http://community.salesforce.com/t5/General-Development/Custom-settings-return-Error-for-non-sys-admins/m-p/173879

Many thanks for your help.
Niels

The Flex objects access the DB via the Apex API. This works great for admins but not for other profiles, where we get a query failure.

SF support tells us the only way we can do this is for the User accessing the object to have “Customize Application” permission (not good…!), but we only want Read access, not Read/Write or Manage. When we set that permission then our app works fine, but of course we cannot let all Users have this permission enabled.

Is there a way around this? Do we have to use heirarchy type instead of list type?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Niels
Perfect Aviation

PS: Here is our select for the custom setting:
var sql: String = “SELECT Id, ” +
“Name, ” +
“bas__Is_In_Duty__c, ” +
“bas__Overlap_Level__c, ” +
“bas__AS_Create_Edit__c, ” +
“bas__CS_Create_Edit__c, ” +
“bas__SC_Create_Edit__c, ” +
“bas__CC_Create_Edit__c, ” +
“bas__TC_Create_Edit__c ” +
“FROM bas__Activity_Mgt__c”;
this.query(ACTIVITY_MGT, sql, success, failed);

This solved my issue calling code.get(string) returns the Object that I want.

Is there any way to get a fields value dynamically, as well as the row.

So instead of
mapCodes.get(‘AFGHANISTAN’).ISO_Code__c

I can say:
ISO_Country__c code = ISO_Country__c.getInstance(‘AFGHANISTAN’);
string myCode = code.get(‘ISO_Code__c’);