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Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Keir Bowden
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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

Introduction


Force.com sites allow public websites to be created in, and hosted by, Salesforce, removing the requirement to configure, secure, and manage a web server. Visualforce pages that have direct access to Salesforce data via the page controller generate the site content.

In this chapter, we will create a Force.com site initially containing static content. We will then create a set of template pages to remove repetition of common markup. Finally, we will provide access to Salesforce data from a public website, allowing visitors to access records without logging in to Salesforce.

Unlike earlier chapters in this book, these recipes are best performed in order, as many recipes build on knowledge gained in earlier recipes and the first recipe, Creating a site, configures the Force.com site that is used to serve the content for all of the remaining recipes.

Note

Salesforce supports an additional technology to host websites, Site.com, which does not use Visualforce to generate content. For...