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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

Navigating between pages


Navigation in Salesforce1 is based on JavaScript events rather than URLs, which means a different approach needs to be taken to simply rendering HTML links. The navigation functionality is made available to Visualforce pages in Salesforce1 via the sforce.one JavaScript object.

This object provides a number of navigation functions, but the key ones are:

  • navigateToURL: This navigates to the specified URL, which may be internal or external

  • navigateToSObject: This navigates to the home page for a specific sObject record

The sforce.one object is not available when a Visualforce page is rendered in the standard Salesforce UI, so pages that rely on this navigation method will not work correctly in the standard UI. Visualforce pages intended for use in both the standard UI and Salesforce1...