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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

Navigation and transitions


A Visualforce page leveraging jQuery Mobile can contain one or more application web pages. Each application page is demarcated by a <div> element with a data-role attribute of page, and additional application pages can be added to a single Visualforce page by stacking these elements.

When multiple application pages appear in a single Visualforce page, these are all stored in the Document Object Model (DOM) at load time and JavaScript is used to transition between the application pages. This can lead to faster application performance, as there is no round-trip to the server in order to access the next page, but does result in a larger DOM, so is not necessarily suitable for applications with many content heavy pages.

Note

For more information about the Document Object Model, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model.

When a single Visualforce page contains a single application page, the default jQuery Mobile behavior is to load the new page into...