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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

Web to lead form


The standard Salesforce web to lead functionality allows a form to be embedded into a company's website to capture information that is then turned into a lead in the company's Salesforce instance. The form is submitted to a servlet that is common to all Salesforce instances and thus, may not be customized besides sending the user to a thank you page that is disconnected from the lead.

Note

For more information on web to lead, visit http://login.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/customize_leadcapture.htm.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce page that captures a lead and redirects the user to a personalized thank you page that displays the ID of the lead for future reference. We will then make this page publicly available via an unauthenticated Force.com site.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have already completed the Creating a site recipe, as it relies on the custom domain and Force.com site created in that recipe.

How to do it...

  1. First, create the thank you Visualforce...