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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Generating printable content


Salesforce has a built-in PDF generation engine that can take your HTML markup and turn it into a PDF. This is a very useful feature to generate more formal documents such as invoices or purchase orders.

You can access it using the renderAs attribute of the apex:page element on a Visualforce page, setting it to pdf. Note that you would typically dedicate a specific Visualforce page for this purpose rather than attempting to use this attribute on one used for other purposes.

Tip

Make sure that you use as much vanilla HTML and CSS as possible; the Visualforce standard components do not always render well in this mode. For this reason, it is also useful to use the standardStylesheets attribute to disable Salesforce CSS as well.

You can also programmatically access this capability by using the PageReference.getContentAsPDF method and attaching the PDF generated to records for future. If you would rather generate PDF content without using a Visualforce page, you can...