Need Help - Add components to Home Page Layout through Metadata API

[roshan-sfdc]

As per my requirement I have to add components to Home Page Layout through Apex, and my client has suggested to use Metadata API. I found two wrapper classes “HomePageLayout” and “HomePageComponent”,, but I am not able to add components to HomePageLayout . I am stuck in this big time. Could you help me please

[afawcett]

Just to let you know, the recent upgrade to Spring'14 has taken a fair bit of my time this week, i will hopefully get round to looking at this next week. You may want to study the readAndUpdateLayout example in the MetadataServiceExamples.cls file in the meantime, although this is for Custom Object layouts, the general principle ought to work, though I've yet to confirm, just wanted to give you a possible lead in the meantime. Thanks.

[afawcett]

Here you go, I've worked up an example that will create a Home Page Component and add it to a Home Page Layout. https://github.com/financialforcedev/apex-mdapi/blob/master/apex-mdapi/src/classes/MetadataServiceExamples.cls#L768

[roshan-sfdc]

@afawcett
Thanks a lot. This is exactly what I was looking for.