Visualforce development cookbook : over 75 recipes to help you create powerful custom pages, simplify data-entry, and enrich the Salesforce user interface / Keir Bowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowden, Keir.

Series:

Quick Answers to Common Problems

Professional expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Visualforce development cookbook : over seventy five recipes to help you create powerful custom pages, simplify data-entry, and enrich the Salesforce user interface

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Bowden Keir: Keir Bowden is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry from the United Kingdom. After spending the early part of his career in the defence industry, he moved into investment banking systems, implementing systems for Banque Nationale de Paris, CitiGroup, and Deutsche Bank. In the late 1990s, Keir moved into Internet technologies, leading to a development of the order management and payment handling systems of one of the first European Internet shopping sites. Keir started working with Force. com in late 2008 and has been recognized multiple times by Salesforce as an MVP for his contribution and leadership in the community. In 2012, he became the first certified technical architect outside of Salesforce in EMEA, and he has served as a judge on several EMEA Technical Architect Certification Review Boards. Keir is also a prominent blogger on Apex, Visualforce and Lightning Components solutions; and a regular speaker at events such as Dreamforce, Cloud World Forum, and Salesforce World Tour. Keir is a chief technical officer of BrightGenaa Salesforce. com Platinum Cloud Alliance Partner in the United Kingdom, where he is responsible for the present and future technical strategies. Keir acted as a technical reviewer for the CRM Admin Cookbook before accepting the challenge of authoring this book, which also happens to be his first.

Summary:

Visualforce Development Cookbook is written in such a way that even complex concepts are explained in an easy-to-understand manner. Following a Cookbook structure, the book covers some essential technical scenarios and includes over 75 recipes focusing on real-world development problems. This book is packed with illustrations and also contains lots of code samples for the better understanding of the reader."Visualforce Development Cookbook" is aimed at developers who have already grasped the basics of Visualforce. Awareness of the standard component library and the purpose of controllers is expected.

Contents:

Intro

Visualforce Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. General Utilities

Introduction

Overriding standard buttons

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Data-driven styling

See also

Turning off an action poller

Visualforce in the sidebar

There's more…

Passing parameters to action methods

Reacting to URL parameters

Passing parameters between Visualforce pages

Opening a pop-up window

Adding a launch page

Testing a custom controller

Testing a controller extension

2. Custom Components

Passing attributes to components

Updating attributes in component controllers

Passing action methods to components

Data-driven decimal places.

How to do it…

The custom iterator component

Setting a value into a controller property

Multiselecting related objects

Notifying the containing page controller

3. Capturing Data Using Forms

Editing a record in Visualforce

Adding error messages to field inputs

Adding error messages to nonfield inputs

Using field sets

Adding a custom lookup to a form

Adding a custom datepicker to a form

Retrieving fields when a lookup is populated

Breaking up forms with action regions

The "Please wait" spinner

Avoiding validation errors with action regions

Action chaining

Errors - harmful if swallowed

4. Managing Records

Styling fields as required

Styling table columns as required

Attaching an image to a record.

Getting ready

Managing attachments

Maintaining custom settings

Refreshing record details from embedded Visualforce

Using wrapper classes

Changing options based on the user input

Changing page layout based on the user input

Form-based searching

5. Managing Multiple Records

Preventing duplicates by searching before creating

Editing a record and its parent

Managing a list of records

Converting a lead

Managing a hierarchy of records

Inline-editing a record from a list

Creating a Visualforce report

Loading records asynchronously

6. Visualforce Charts

Creating a bar chart

Creating a line chart

Customizing a chart

How it works….

Adding multiple series

Creating a stacked bar chart

Adding a third axis

Embedding a chart in a record view page

Multiple charts per page

7. JavaScript

Using action functions

Avoiding race conditions

The confirmation dialog

Pressing Enter to submit

Tooltips

The character counter

The onload handler

Collapsible list elements

The scrolling news ticker

There's more...

Carousel messages

Hiding buttons on submit

Client-side validation

Trapping navigation away

8. Force.com Sites

Creating a site

Record and field access

Retrieving content from Salesforce

How to do it….

How it works…

Web to lead form

Creating a website template

Adding a header menu to a template

Adding a sidebar to a template

Conditional rendering in templates

Getting ready...

9. jQuery Mobile

Mobilizing a Visualforce page

Navigation and transitions

Adding a navigation bar

Working with dialogs

Listing records

Mobile Visualforce forms

Redirecting to the mobile page based on the browser

Storing the user's location

Scanning the QR code to access the page

Index.

Notes:

"Quick answers to common problems"--Cover.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 8, 2013).

ISBN:

9781782170815

1782170812

OCLC:

861537046