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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

Displaying a location in a map


When a Salesforce record contains geolocation data, a common requirement is to show this location on a map, for example, to allow field service agents to determine the location of their next job or for a sales rep to plan their day visiting prospects.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce page that plots the location of a lead record that was created with geolocation information.

Note

This recipe makes use of the Google Maps API. At the time of writing, the Terms and Conditions of this API provide free use only when your implementation is freely and publicly accessible. In the event that you wish to use this API in a production Salesforce implementation, you will be required to purchase a Google Maps API for Business License. You can find more information at the following Salesforce knowledge article: https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewSolution?id=000188482. The full terms and conditions for the Google Maps API are available from: https://developers.google...