Pushing Visualforce to the Limits, Without Apex

Pushing Visualforce to the LimitsWithout Apex

Joseph, Ucuzoglu, The Broad Center, Deputy Director of Information Systems

All about Session Goals / Agenda

Provide you with some useful takeaways and entertainment!

▪ Add/Delete VF fields within the declarative interface

▪ Creating tabbed object layouts with Visualforce

▪ Embed Visualforce pages into your website

My #1 Challenge, Help You Avoid this….

I may want to show you this

But your mind wants to know more about this…

No need to take notes!All code samples,the presentation, and more…

will be posted in Chatter

So relax and enjoy the show

Unfortunate Business of theSafe Harbor SlidePlease welcome my organization’s Operations Associate

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Special Guest Safe Harbor Slide VocalistXoichitl Flores

You ALWAYS need APEX to do really cool stuff…

That’s like saying *ALL* Safe Harbor slides are boring!

• Code Deployments

• Test Coverage

• Governor Limits

• Longer to Develop

• Difficulty

Use 1

Problem:We want to allow Administrators to add/delete fields from some VF pages without having to edit VF code.

Use 1

Solution:Use Fieldsets on our VF page and then add/remove fields via the field set within the declarative interface.

Why not just expect people to edit the VF code?

Adding a fieldset is easy> Select your object > Field Set (Beta) > New

In Practice

A very simple Visualforce page with a Field Set

Putting it all together

Create your Visualforce Pagehttp://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_vf/workbook_vf.pdf

Working with Field Setshttp://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/pages/Content/pages_dynamic_vf_field_sets.htm

Problem:The page layouts for objects are getting too long and unwieldy. It is becoming difficult / time consuming to find information.

Use 2

Use 2

Solution:Re-architect the layout within Visualforce utilizing tabs to present information concisely.

How did we get such large records?

We came to an understanding organization wide.

Bloated Contact Layout - Page 1

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Tabbed layout

Tab Panel / Detail SectionTab Panel Detail Section

Including Related ListsRelated List Apex Tab

Locating the List Value

Bonus Tip – Colored Active Tab

Putting it all together

Create your Visualforce Pagehttp://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_vf/workbook_vf.pdf

Jeff Douglas Blog – Using Related Lists in Visualforce Pageshttp://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2009/05/13/using-related-lists-in-visualforce-pages/

Create tabbed pages in VisualForcehttp://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Tabbed_Accounts_in_30_seconds

Problem:We want to display/accept information from a custom object within our organizations website.

Use 3

Use 3

Solution:Create a Visualforce page and embed it into our website using a Sites page.

Step #1 – Create the Visual Force Page

Step #2 – Create the Sites Page

• Update Custom Object Permissions

• Adjust Field Level Security (Mark necessary fields as Visible)

The side by side comparison

Step #3 – Embed the page utilizing an iFrame

Putting it all together

Create your Visualforce Pagehttp://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_vf/workbook_vf.pdf

Edit the Guest User Profile Permissionshttp://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_siteforce/wb_siteforce.pdf

Create a Sites Pagehttp://wiki.developerforce.com/page/An_Introduction_to_Force.com_Sites

Quick RecapWhy Visualforce (without Apex)

Examples we explored▪ Add/Delete VF fields within the declarative interface▪ Creating tabbed object layouts with Visualforce▪ Embed Visualforce pages into your website

• Code Deployments

• Test Coverage

• Governor Limits

• Longer to Develop

• Difficulty

Create PDF documents from VF pages (Including auto page numbering)

Create Dynamic Tables in Visual Force in 3 steps

Additional Bonus Materials *not shown in the presentation*

Create PDF documents from PDF pages (Including auto page numbering)

Create Dynamic Tables in Visual Force in 3 steps

All Materials will be posted in the Session Chatter Feed

Use Fieldsets to Modify Fields on Visualforce pages

Consolidate Data Presentation With Tabbed Layouts

Collect data from a public website and record that information in Salesforce

Joseph Ucuzoglu

Deputy Director of Information Systems,The Broad Center

Xochitl Flores

Operations Associate,The Broad Center