Introduction to Force.com Pages (Visualforce)

Developers

Reid Carlberg: salesforce.com@ReidCarlberg@ForceDotComLabs

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Who Has…

Just started with force.com?

Modified an existing HTML web page on any system?

Developed an HTML web page from scratch?

Developed a JSP/PHP/etc. type page?

Implemented a complete webapp from scratch?

Visualforceprovides UI flexibility.

Salesforce MobileBest Mobile Experience

Why Visualforce?

After this session

Describe Visualforce and why it matters

Explain 3 Common Usage Patterns

Identify 2 Ways of Authoring Pages

Decide your personal next step

Model-View-Controller

ModelView Controller

Today’s Demo App: Project Management

Project__c

Milestone__c

Action__c

User

Developer Mode, Pages & Styles

What We Did

Activate Developer Mode

Update the URL to “…/apex/MyNewPage”

standardController=Project__c

apex:Detail

showHeader=false

showSidebar=false

“…/apex/MyNewPage?id=[some project id]”

MAGIC!

Learning the Syntax

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Types of Controllers

standardController – All CRUD operations

– Expects “id” parameter

– You write no code

custom controllers– Replace standard controllers completely

– You write all code

controller extensions– Extend standard controllers

– You write some code

Extensions & UI Enhancement

What We Did

Wanted to see more detail about GrandChild objects

Created a Custom Page (no header, no sidebar)

Standard Controller = “Project__c”

Extensions=“ProjectMilestoneActionController”

Followed prompts to created class, methods

Built out a list of milestones and tasks

MAGIC!

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Learning What’s Possible

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Multiple Objects & Action Overrides

Advanced Topics

Rerender

Wizards

List views

Reporting & Dashboards

Portals

Mobile Deployment

Email Templates

Best Practices

Develop custom Apex code in sandbox or developer

edition

Use security scanner to ensure quality– http://security.force.com

Rely on server side where possible– faster!

Insert only a single <apex:form /> tag– faster!

Avoid re-writing every page

Next Steps

Join Developer.Force.com– Get a Developer Edition

– Do the Force.com Workbook

Visit the Dev Zone!– Get the Cheatsheet (actually get ‘em all)

– Do the Workbook

Attend More Sessions– Intro to Force.com Sites

– Developing Applications with JQuery

Resources, Q & A

Chatter Resources– This Deck in Dreamforce org

Twitter Resources– @ReidCarlberg

– @ForceDotComLabs

– @ForceDotCom

– @Salesforce

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