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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

Converting a lead


The standard Salesforce lead conversion page allows a user to create a new account and contact record or merge with existing records, and optionally create a new opportunity record. Information from the lead is copied to the existing or new records based on the lead field mapping configuration. If a user wishes to specify information after clicking on the Convert button, they must exit the conversion and edit the lead record.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce  page to allow a user to convert a lead and in addition to creating or merging with existing records, populate additional fields on the opportunity that is created as part of the conversion.

Getting ready

This recipe makes use of a controller extension, so this must be present before the Visualforce page can be created.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate 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 LeadConvertExt.cls Apex class...