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Visualforce Development Cookbook

By : Keir Bowden
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Visualforce Development Cookbook

By: Keir Bowden

Overview of this book

Visualforce, in conjunction with Apex, makes it easy to develop sophisticated, custom UIs for Force.com desktop and mobile apps without having to write thousands of lines of code and markup. The "Dynamic Binding" feature of Visualforce lets you develop generic Visualforce pages to display information related to the records without necessarily knowing which data fields to show. This is accomplished through a formula-like syntax, which makes it simple to manage even a complex hierarchy of records. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" provides solutions for 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 required help throughout. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" starts with explaining the simple utilities and builds up to advanced techniques for data visualization and reuse of functionality. This book contains recipes that cover various topics like 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. "Visualforce Development Cookbook" provides lots of practical examples to enhance and extend the Salesforce user interface.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Visualforce Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Retrieving content from Salesforce


Force.com sites allow unauthenticated visitors access to custom (and some standard) Salesforce sObjects. While providing public access to data stored in Salesforce might seem like a security risk, it is a perfect fit for dynamically generated website content; content authors don't need to know how to edit Visualforce pages in order to be able to update the content of the site.

In this recipe we will create a Visualforce page that renders content from the three most recently edited records of a custom sObject. 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.

This recipe requires a custom sObject that encapsulates the items to display on the site.

  1. First, create the site content custom sObject by navigating to Your Name | Setup | Create | Objects.

  2. Click on...