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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

Collapsible list elements


When a number of records and related information are rendered as a list, a user is often presented with a large amount of data that they must scroll through in order to access the items that they are interested in. One way to improve this is to allow items to be collapsed, showing enough headline information to allow the item to be identified, but taking up the minimum amount of screen real estate.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce page that displays a list of account records and their associated contact records. Each account record is collapsed when the page is initially rendered, and the user may click a record to expand it and see the associated contact information.

Note

Visualforce provides collapsible behavior for the standard <apex:pageBlockSection /> component. However, this forces the content that is to be expanded or collapsed to be nested inside this component, which styles the content in a similar fashion to a standard Salesforce section...