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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

Listing records


In the previous recipes, records have been laid out in a grid format which do not have much space for record details. Using jQuery Mobile listview widget allows record details to be displayed in each element of a list, and also allows a number of different items of functionality to be made available declaratively through HTML5 data- attributes.

In this recipe we will create a mobile Visualforce page to render contact information in a jQuery Mobile listview widget. The listview will group the contacts into sections based on the first letter of the LastName field on the contact record. The listview will also be filterable by entering text into a search box at the top of the list.

How to do it…

This recipe does not require any controllers, so we only need to create the Visualforce pages.

  1. Navigate to the Visualforce setup page by clicking on Your Name | Setup | Develop | Pages.

  2. Click on the New button.

  3. Enter MobileFilteredList in the Label field.

  4. Accept the default MobileFilteredList...