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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

Record and field access


A common source of confusion for Visualforce developer is configuring a Force.com site to allow unauthenticated access to Salesforce records and specific fields. This is usually configured via the Profiles menu located at Your Name | Setup | Administration Setup | Profiles. However, access to records and fields for a Force.com site is configured via the setup page for the site in question.

In this recipe we will configure the Force.com site created in the first recipe to allow public access to contact records. We will then create a Visualforce page that allows a visitor to enter an e-mail address into a form on the Force.com site and extract the contact record matching the e-mail address, displaying the First Name, Last Name, and Email fields from the contact record.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have already completed the Creating a Site recipe, as it relies on the custom domain and Force.com site created in that recipe.

How to do it…

  1. First, add access to...