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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

Refreshing record details from embedded Visualforce


A Visualforce page can be embedded into a standard or custom sObject record view page, providing the standard controller for the sObject type manages it. This technique is often used to allow information to be added to a record or its related lists without leaving the view page. The Visualforce page is embedded in the record view page using an iframe. This means that returning a page reference to send the user to the record view page after an update results in the entire record view page being displayed inside the iframe, as shown in the following screenshot:

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce page that is embedded inside the standard case sObject record view page and allows a case comment to be added directly from the page. Upon saving a case comment, the entire record view page will be refreshed to display the updated case comments related list.

Getting ready

This recipe makes use of a controller extension, so this must be present...