Using Visualforce in Salesforce1

Using Visualforce in Salesforce1

Speakers

Sandeep Bhanot Mobile Geek (both kinds) @cloudysan

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Introducing Salesforce1

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Noti!cations Platform

Publisher Actions

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Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it?

§  How can I make it better?

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it?

§  How can I make it better?

Visualforce – Left Nav

Visualforce Pages in Left Nav

JavaScript navigation library available sforce.one.navigateToSObject etc.

Visualforce – Publisher Actions

Visualforce Pages as Publisher Actions (VF page needs to the extend Standard Controller for

use with Object Speci!c Publisher Actions)

JavaScript Pub-Sub library available to interact with the publisher

publisher.setValidForSubmit

publisher.post

publisher.close

Visualforce – Page Layout

Visualforce Pages in Page Layouts (VF page needs to the extend Standard Controller)

Visualforce – Mobile Cards

Mobile Cards - Visualforce Pages on Record Detail

(VF page needs to the extend Standard Controller)

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  <apex:page docType="html-5.0" …>

§  ‘Available for Salesforce Mobile apps’ #ag enabled

§  VF page needs to the extend Standard Controller in order to use in the Page Layout, Mobile Cards or Publisher Actions

Things to remember…

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better?

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better?

Visualforce in Salesforce1 – UI/UX considerations

Salesforce1 cannot auto-magically (yes, it’s a word) make Visualforce

pages mobile-optimized

Visualforce UI/UX considerations

§  Design VF pages taking the limited real-estate in mobile into account

§  Decide which form-factors your page has to support - phone, tablet, both

§  Develop for the mobile context –  Use device features like geolocation, camera etc. where appropriate

–  Mobile version of the page/app does not have to support all the bells and whistles – less is more

–  Optimize for your most common mobile use case – discovery, data entry, search etc.

§  <apex:page standardStylesheets="false">

§  Use Responsive Design principles (same as the Salesforce1 app)

Making Visualforce Pages Mobile Optimized Mobile Design Templates

www.developerforce.com/mobile/services/mobile-templates

Making Visualforce Pages Mobile Optimized Twitter Bootstrap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TbyDH0RaY Using Visualforce and Bootstrap -

http://bit.ly/VisualStrap

Custom Bootstrap fork that works with default Visualforce styling (Community developed)

Making Visualforce Pages Mobile Optimized Ionic Framework

http://coenraets.org/blog/2014/02/sample-force-com-mobile-application-with-ionic-and-angularjs/

Making Visualforce Pages Mobile Optimized Ratchet

http://coenraets.org/blog/2014/03/building-mobile-apps-for-salesforce-com-with-ratchet-2-0/

Making Visualforce Pages Mobile Optimized jQuery Mobile

http://www.developerforce.com/mobile/getting-started/html5/#jquery

Using Standard Visualforce Tags in Salesforce1

<apex:repeat> <apex:outputPanel>

Note: Representative sample only. This is not a comprehensive list

<apex:pageBlock> <apex:pageBlockButtons> <apex:pageBlockSection> <apex:pageBlockSectionItem>

<apex:pageBlockTable> <apex:inlineEditSupport>

<apex:detail> <apex:inputField>** <apex:enhancedList> <apex:listViews> <apex:relatedList>

<chatter:*> <liveagent:*>

Works and Supported

Supported, but avoid if

possible

Not Supported

Using Standard Visualforce Tags in Salesforce1

§  Try and avoid using standard Visualforce tags (which are optimized for desktop) if possible.

§  Use standard HTML markup (<div>, <section>, <p>, <a>, <li> etc.) + custom mobile-optimized CSS (e.g. Bootstrap) instead

§  If you have to use structure tags like <apex:pageBlockSection>, use 1 column layout.

Salesforce1 Style Guide

http://sfdc-styleguide.herokuapp.com/

Keeping Visualforce pages consistent with the Salesforce1 look and feel

Salesforce1 Style Guide

https://github.com/joshbirk/onestarter

OneStarter - An open-source jQuery plugin for easily making Visualforce pages appear in the style of Salesforce1.

Visualforce in Salesforce1 - UI/UX summary

Dos Don’ts Responsive design Desktop optimized design

Standard HTML markup and custom CSS

Standard VF structure tags and CSS

Less is more Support every bell and whistle

Use Mobile Context (e.g. camera, geolocation)

Recreate desktop functionality

Optimized for touch (e.g. larger tap areas, HTML5 form inputs)

Optimized for click

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better?

§  Avoid ViewState (no <apex:form>)

§  Favor Single Page apps (full page rendering is expensive on mobile)

§  Consider JavaScript MV* Frameworks like AngularJS, Backbone etc. to provide structure

Business Logic & Data Binding in Visualforce

Top 3 things to remember….

Business Logic & Data Binding in Visualforce

§  Invoke Apex Controller/Extension methods from JavaScript

§  Avoids ViewState (better performance)

§  Stateless business logic

§  Front-end heavy (i.e. JavaScript) development

JavaScript Remoting

Business Logic & Data Binding in Visualforce

§  Basic CRUD operations on SObjects directly from JavaScript

§  Avoids ViewState (better performance)

§  Reduces server-side Apex code

§  Front-end heavy (i.e. JavaScript) development

§  Replaces ForceTk/RemoteTk (in the VF context)

Visualforce Remote Objects (new Pilot in Spring ’14)

Business Logic & Data Binding in Visualforce

§  Use <apex:repeat> to display lists

<apex:repeat> is your friend

Business Logic & Data Binding in Visualforce

Mobile Packs

http://www.developerforce.com/mobile/services/mobile-packs

§  Use popular open-source JavaScript MV* Frameworks in Visualforce

§  Great way to build single-page mobile web apps

§  Mobile Packs handle data binding with Salesforce

Visualforce in Salesforce1 – Data Binding summary

Dos Don’ts JavaScript Remoting <apex:form>

Visualforce Remote Objects <apex:form>

HTML5 Input Elements (tel, email, date etc.)

<apex:inputField>

<apex:input type=“tel/email/…”/> <apex:inputField>

Single Page apps Multi-page apps

JavaScript MV* Frameworks like AngularJS, Backbone etc.

No JavaScript Framework

Stateless & Asynchronous Server-side state & synchronous

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better?

Visualforce in Salesforce1 - Navigation

Salesforce1 provides a JavaScript navigation library via the sforce.one object

sforce.one.navigateToSObject

sforce.one.navigateToURL

sforce.one.navigateToFeed

sforce.one.navigateToFeedItemDetail

sforce.one.navigateToRelatedList

sforce.one.navigateToList

sforce.one.editRecord

sforce.one.createRecord

Visualforce in Salesforce1 - Navigation

§  Avoid using window.open

§  Manipulating window.location.href directly will NOT work

§  Don’t use target="_blank” in navigation links

§  External links (e.g. <a href=“www.test.com”>) will open in a new child browser

§  Internal links will open in current window

Things to remember….

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better?

Supporting multiple form factors in Visualforce

But my Visualforce page has to work in Salesforce1 (phone & tablet) AND Desktop…

Supporting multiple form factors in Visualforce

Option 1 (existing pages) : Refactor to make mobile-friendly

§  Minimize/eliminate use of VF tags like <apex:pageBlock>, <apex:detail> etc. that are not mobile-optimized and/or supported in Salesforce1

§  Replace <apex:form> with JavaScript Remoting or Remote Objects where possible

Supporting multiple form factors in Visualforce

Option 2 : Responsive Design

Recommended approach

Supporting multiple form factors in Visualforce

Option 3 : Serve different content based on form-factor

http://blogs.developerforce.com/developer-relations/2012/05/cross-device-html5-apps-using-visualforce.html

Libraries like Device.js or Modernizr can be used to detect form-factor

–  Redirect to different VF pages based on form factor, OR

–  Conditionally show sections of the page based on form factor

Supporting multiple form factors in Visualforce

Remember to handle navigation differently in Salesforce1 vs Desktop

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better?

Device Access in Salesforce1

PhoneGap/Cordova type device access is not available in the Salesforce1 app.

HOWEVER….

–  Geolocation API (check the Saleforce1 Dev Guide for an example)

–  <input type="!le" accept="image/*"/> (for Camera access)

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better? –  Performance

–  Debugging

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better? –  Performance

–  Debugging

Visualforce Performance in Salesforce1

The 3 most important things about developing mobile web pages Performance, Performance, Performance.

Visualforce Performance in Salesforce1 Some Performance tips for designing mobile VF pages

§  Avoid viewstate (no <apex:form>)

§  <apex:page cache="true" expires="600">

§  Minimize all your CSS and JavaScript (using tools like YUI Compressor) and compress images

§  Use optimization techniques like image lazy loading and in!nite scroll

§  Insert/update the DOM in bulk to avoid browser re#ows (e.g. insert an entire <ul> section instead of individual <li> elements)

General

§  Use libraries like FastClick to avoid the default 300ms tap delay in mobile web browsers

§  Use lightweight JavaScript libraries like Zepto.js instead of Jquery

§  Move your <script> statements to the end of the Visualforce page

JavaScript

Visualforce Performance in Salesforce1

Some Performance tips for designing mobile VF pages

§  Use CSS Sprites to minimize HTTP connections

§  Avoid CSS techniques like drop shadows, gradients etc. that affect page performance. Flat design is new black.

§  Use Hardware Accelerated CSS properties where appropriate

§  Use PNG/JPG images (no GIFs). Avoid images completely (use CSS3 instead) where possible.

§  Build single page apps with CSS transitions between screens/sections

§  Conditionally load static assets (CSS, images etc.) based on form factor

CSS/Images

Visualforce Performance in Salesforce1

Some Tools to help you measure page performance

§  WebPageTest

§  PageSpeed Insights

§  Chrome Developer Tools - Timeline

Visualforce in Salesforce1

§  Where can I use it?

§  How do I use it? –  UI/UX

–  Business Logic & Data Binding

–  Navigation

–  Supporting multiple form factors

–  Device Access

§  How can I make it better? –  Performance

–  Debugging

Salesforce1 comes in two #avors

http://yourinstance.salesforce.com/one/one.app

Web version Hybrid version

Debugging Visualforce in Salesforce1

Debug your Visualforce page in the web version of Salesforce1 !rst

http://yourinstance.salesforce.com/one/one.app

Debugging Visualforce in Salesforce1

Use standard web debugging tools like Chrome Dev. Tools and

Firebug

Debugging Visualforce pages running on a device (i.e. inside the Hybrid Salesforce1 app)

http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/

Debugging Visualforce in Salesforce1

Weinre – open source tool to debug web pages running on a device

Salesforce1 Developer Resources

§  Webinar: Intro to Salesforce1 Mobile App Development

§  Dreamforce Sessions – bit.ly/s1-df-sessions

§  Developer Guide – bit.ly/s1-dev-guide

§  Blogs: –  6 things you need to know: bit.ly/s1-6-things

–  Mobile cards: bit.ly/s1-mobile-cards

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