You're reading from Visualforce Development Cookbook Upgrade Your Development Skills

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468086

Length 358 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Force.com

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Keir Bowden

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. General Utilities FREE CHAPTER

2. Custom Components

3. Capturing Data Using Forms

4. Managing Records

5. Managing Multiple Records

6. Visualforce Charts

7. Enhancing the Client with JavaScript

8. Force.com Sites

9. Visualforce in Salesforce1

10. Troubleshooting

Chapter 3. Capturing Data Using Forms

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Editing a record in Visualforce
Adding error messages to field inputs
Adding error messages to non-field inputs
Using field sets
Adding a custom lookup to a form
Adding a custom datepicker to a form
Retrieving fields when a lookup is populated
Breaking up forms with action regions
The Please wait spinner
Action chaining

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Authors (1)

Keir Bowden

Keir Bowden is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry from the United Kingdom. After spending the early part of his career in the defence industry, he moved into investment banking systems, implementing systems for Banque Nationale de Paris, CitiGroup, and Deutsche Bank. In the late 1990s, Keir moved into Internet technologies, leading to a development of the order management and payment handling systems of one of the first European Internet shopping sites. Keir started working with Force.com in late 2008 and has been recognized multiple times by Salesforce as an MVP for his contribution and leadership in the community. In 2012, he became the first certified technical architect outside of Salesforce in EMEA, and he has served as a judge on several EMEA Technical Architect Certification Review Boards. Keir is also a prominent blogger on Apex, Visualforce and Lightning Components solutions; and a regular speaker at events such as Dreamforce, Cloud World Forum, and Salesforce World Tour. Keir is a chief technical officer of BrightGena—a Salesforce.com Platinum Cloud Alliance Partner in the United Kingdom, where he is responsible for the present and future technical strategies. Keir acted as a technical reviewer for the CRM Admin Cookbook before accepting the challenge of authoring this book, which also happens to be his first.

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