Custom Event Handling with Visualforce Opportunity Contact Roles

Ritesh Aswaney, Technical Solution Architect, salesforce.com @techtrekker

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Ritesh Aswaney Technical Solution Architect @techtrekker

About : me Technical Solution Architect

§  Salesforce Services •  Based in London

•  Certified Advanced Developer

•  On the Road to CTA

§  Experience •  10 years of Enterprise Software

•  4 years of working on the Force.com Platform

•  StackExchange junkie

Second among equals Object Types

§  ‘First Class’ Objects •  Triggers, Workflow

•  Custom Fields

§  Non ‘First Class’ Objects •  No Triggers or Workflow

•  ‘Junction’ Objects

•  No Custom Fields

Business Need Junction Objects model real world business relationships, hotbed of custom business logic

§  Opportunity / Account Contact Role •  Sales Team need to know if Business Decision Maker Changes

•  Downstream Systems notified of changes in OCR

§  Account Team •  Custom Business Logic when people are added to Account Teams

Solution Option 1: Custom Junction Object §  Lose OOTB functionality such as sharing with teams §  Triggers, Workflow can be created

§  Custom Fields can be added

§  Overhead of keeping (Custom & Standard Object) records in sync

Solution Option 2: Custom Visualforce Section §  Retain OOTB functionality §  ‘Touch’ Parent Object and update custom field

§  Multiplex Triggers, Wokflows to cater for Junction Objects

§  Integration Hooks to trigger Outbound Messages to External Systems

Meet the Paramters §  saveURL

•  Redirect to this URL when a user hits Save

§  retURL

•  Redirect to this URL when a user hits Cancel

§  https://cs1.salesforce.com/02Z/e?retURL=%2FRECORD_ID&saveURL=/apex/VF_PAGE_NAME

Solution Design : How does it flow

Demo

Solution Elements : URL Decoration $j( 'input[type="button"]', this ).each(function() $j( this ).attr('onclick', "window.parent.location=" + onclicklink + "&saveURL=/apex/SavePage?actionURI={!objId}_" + rlName + "';");!

});!

!$j( 'a.actionLink', this ).each(function() {!

onClickUrl += '&saveURL=/apex/SavePage?actionURI={!objId}_'+ rlName;!

$j( this ).attr('onclick', "window.parent.location='" + onClickUrl + "'" ); });!

!

Solution Elements : Save Handler String[] tokens = actionURI.split('_');!

Id entityId = tokens[0];!

String relatedList = tokens[1];!

!

if(entityId.getSObjectType() == Opportunity.sObjectType){!

! !if(relatedList == 'Contact Roles')!

handleOpportunityContactRole(entityId); //callback!

else if(relatedList == 'Opportunity Team')!

handleOpportunityTeam(entityId); //callback!

!

}!

Solution Element: Visualforce Event Handler Page §  Invoking Apex Code (Controller) on Page Load §  Use action attribute

<apex:page action="{!handleOnLoad}" controller="SavePageCon”>

Solution Elements : Dynamic Visualforce Controller if(objId.getSObjectType() == Opportunity.sObjectType)!

!Schema.DescribeSObjectResult R = !!Opportunity.SObjectType.getDescribe();!

!

List<Schema.ChildRelationship> C = R.getChildRelationships(); !

List<String> relations = new List<String>();!

! ! for (Schema.ChildRelationship cr: C) {//only some relationships!

! ! !if ( (cr.getRelationshipName().contains('Role’) ) !

relations.add(relName);!

! ! }!

Solution Elements : Dynamic Visualforce Controller public Component.Apex.OutputPanel getOpportunityRelatedLists() {!

!Component.Apex.OutputPanel dynOutPanel= new !Component.Apex.OutputPanel();!

for(String rel: relations) {!

Component.Apex.RelatedList dynRelList = new ! ! ! !Component.Apex.RelatedList();!

dynRelList.list = rel;!

dynOutPanel.childComponents.add(dynRelList);!

}!

return dynOutPanel; !

!}!

Solution Element: Dynamic Visualforce Page §  Visualforce Markup generated dynamically in the Controller §  Dynamic generation of custom related lists based on the relationship

<apex:dynamicComponent componentValue="{!OpportunityRelatedLists}"/>!

!

!

Ritesh Aswaney

Technical Solution Architect, @techtrekker