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Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Keir Bowden
Book Image

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 site


In this recipe we will configure a Force.com site that displays a single page. The contents of the page are static, and the page will be publicly available to unauthenticated visitors.

Getting ready

This recipe uses the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) (https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/) to style the page. The CSS, icons, and fonts must be uploaded to Salesforce as a static resource.

Note

At the time of writing, the current version of the SLDS is 2.0.2 - if you download a later version and use a different name to that detailed in the following steps, you will need to update the Visualforce pages to use the name that you have chosen.

  1. Set the Cache Control field to Public and click on the Save button.

  2. Click on the Browse button and select the salesforce-lightning-design-system-2.0.2.zip file downloaded in step 1.

  3. Enter Salesforce Lightning Design System v2.0.2 in the Description field.

  4. Enter SLDS_2_0_2 in the Name field.

  5. Click on the New button.

  6. Navigate to the Static Resource...