Introduction to Visualforce

Ralph Eddy – Sales EngineerHenry Liu – Sales Engineer

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What You Will Learn TodayWhat is Visualforce and how is it used.

▪ ExamplesDeveloping in visualforce.

▪ We are going to build a page that allows you to Nominate Contacts for a Conference▪ We evolve this page from

• a simplelist• to an enterable list• make it searchable• show it on an Account page• Give it a modern responsive design• Make it mobile

How to get Started.

Outline, Agenda, Introduction, ExamplesAgenda - 5

▪ Show in VF TabIntroduction - 5

▪ When to Use Visualforce▪ Our story is around Managing Conferences

Examples of how Visualforce is used - 5▪ Custom Tab – you already saw the Agenda▪ Custom Tab in a User’s Profile▪ Inline on a Detail page

• Banner on Conference• Google Map• SAP Data

▪ Global Action• Add Attendee

▪ Mobile• Add Attendee and other apps

These slides are not to be presented. Rather, this is the outline of what they are presenting, since they do not intend to have slides.

Create a List of ContactsGoal: We want to create a page that list contacts and makes it very easy to recommend them to attend a Conference.

Create a Visualforce Page – in Setup - 3Turn on Development Mode• View page using /apex/{pagename}

<apex:pageblock> - 3<apex:pageSection>Component Reference for quick Help

Add a banner to the top of the page - 3• Upload an image to resources• <apex:image>

So far this page is static – le’s add some data

Add a controller - 5• LIST<contact>• [SELECT]<apex: pageBlockTable>• <apex:outputField> : First, last, phone, email

Make it a Tab - 3ShowHeader=“false”

Make the List Enterable & SearchableMake list Enterable - 5

▪ Add to query in controller (type an error)▪ <apex:inputField> Contact.Nominate_For__c : exec, regular, no▪ Make Email enterable as well

• Show validation (how?)

Controller add Save method: update list<apex:commandButton> Save

▪ Save gets error – add <apex:form>

Update and show data on Contact record.

Add Search – Last name - 5▪ Add method to Controller

• Show data validation in Apex when save select▪ Add Search to Page

Do a search

Show List on Account, Responsive, MobileAdd page to Account (use a copy of the page) - 5

▪ /apex/ContactsOnAccount – creates a new page• Use the same controller

▪ standardController▪ New constructor method where Search uses id▪ Remove search and banner

Drag Visualforce onto Account recordUpdate Contacts

Replace Visualforce Markup with Responsive Design - 5▪ Do this in a copy of the page, reference the same controller

Show page in a Mobile device - 5▪ Add “page” record in QW demo.

Sandbox, Dev Tools, Rich Examples, Getting StartedTo do this in production you must develop in a Sandbox and promote to Production

▪ Apex code must have a test class

Developing in other tools▪ Eclipse▪ Sublime

Additional Examples of full Websites▪ Demo Booth signup▪ AppExchange

How to Get Started Resources▪ Developer.force.com▪ Visualforce documentation▪ Youtube▪ Discussion Boards

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