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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

Introduction


Salesforce1 was launched with Dreamforce 2013 and provides mobile access to Salesforce data and standard functionality including standard and custom objects, reports, dashboards, and chatter. In addition to this, Salesforce1 is a mobile application development platform that allows existing functionality to be extended and entirely new applications to be developed.

The Salesforce1 platform supports Visualforce in the following ways - note that in all cases the page must have the Available for Salesforce mobile apps and Lightning Pages checkbox selected:

  • Embedded in page layouts: Using the same mechanism as the standard UI, the Visualforce page must extend the Standard Controller for the sObject type

  • Left Navigation Menu: Visualforce tabs may be added directly to the menu

  • Publisher Actions: Visualforce pages may be surfaced as publisher actions on record home pages as long as they extend the Standard Controller for the sObject type

  • Mobile Cards: Displayed on the related information...