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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

Pressing Enter to submit


When the Enter key is pressed and a single-line HTML form element has focus, modern browsers will submit the form via the first submit button. If the user has pressed the Enter key expecting to move on to a new line and remain in the input element, this can lead to the submission of a partially filled in form, resulting in a low-quality record being created.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce page that allows a user to create an opportunity. If the user presses the Enter key while filling in any of the opportunity fields, they will be asked to confirm that they wish to submit the form.

Getting ready

This recipe makes use of a standard controller, so we only need to create the Visualforce page.

How to do it...

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

  2. Click on the New button.

  3. Enter PressEnter in the Label field.

  4. Accept the default PressEnter that is automatically generated...