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Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Keir Bowden
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Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Keir Bowden

Overview of this book

Visualforce is a framework that allows developers to build sophisticated, custom user interfaces that can be hosted natively on the Force.com platform. The Visualforce framework includes a tag-based markup language, similar to HTML that is used to write the Visualforce pages and a set of controllers that are used to write business logic to the Visualforce pages. Visualforce Development Cookbook provides solutions to a variety of challenges faced by Salesforce developers and demonstrates how easy it is to build rich, interactive pages using Visualforce. Whether you are looking to make a minor addition to the standard page functionality or override it completely, this book will provide you with the help you require throughout. You will start by learning about the simple utilities and will build up to more advanced techniques for data visualization and to reuse functionality. You will learn how to perform various tasks such as creating multiple records from a single page, visualizing data as charts, using JavaScript to enhance client-side functionality, building a public website, and making data available to a mobile device. With an interesting chapter on tackling common issues faced while developing Visualforce pages, the book provides lots of practical examples to enhance and extend your Salesforce user interface.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating a Visualforce report


Salesforce provides powerful analytic capabilities through its report and dashboard builders, but there are times when reporting requirements cannot be satisfied through the standard functionality, for example, where data from a number of different sources is required to be presented in multiple formats. In this scenario, Visualforce can give fine-grained control over the layout of the results, while a custom controller allows retrieval of any accessible data in the system.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce report that retrieves all cases matching the criteria specified by the user and outputs these in a tabular format containing details of all cases, keeping a running total of the number of cases with the same status and origin. Two tables that provide the total count of cases for each status and origin value follow this.

Note

Note that the replacement of the standard reporting functionality with Visualforce should only be carried out as a last resort...