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Visualforce Development Cookbook

By : Keir Bowden
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Visualforce Development Cookbook

By: Keir Bowden

Overview of this book

Visualforce, in conjunction with Apex, makes it easy to develop sophisticated, custom UIs for Force.com desktop and mobile apps without having to write thousands of lines of code and markup. The "Dynamic Binding" feature of Visualforce lets you develop generic Visualforce pages to display information related to the records without necessarily knowing which data fields to show. This is accomplished through a formula-like syntax, which makes it simple to manage even a complex hierarchy of records. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" provides solutions for 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 required help throughout. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" starts with explaining the simple utilities and builds up to advanced techniques for data visualization and reuse of functionality. This book contains recipes that cover various topics like 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. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" provides lots of practical examples to enhance and extend the Salesforce user interface.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Visualforce Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Editing a record and its parent


A Visualforce page managed by a standard controller can provide the edit capability for a record and its parent. However, when the standard controller Save method is invoked, the object graph is not traversed and only the record being managed by the controller is saved.

In this recipe we will create a Visualforce page to allow a user to edit fields from a contact and its parent account. Saving the record will also apply any changes made to the parent account record.

Getting ready

This recipe makes use of an extension controller, so this will need to be created before the Visualforce page.

How to do it…

  1. First, create the custom controller by navigating to the Apex Classes setup page by clicking on Your Name | Setup | Develop | Apex Classes.

  2. Click on the New button.

  3. Paste the contents of the ContactAndAccountEditExt.cls Apex class from the code download into the Apex Class area.

  4. Click on the Save button.

  5. Next, create the Visualforce page by navigating to the Visualforce...