A carousel is a mechanism for giving viewers of a web page access to a number of content items (for example, messages, news stories, and images) via a single element on the page. They are usually implemented as sliding or rotating horizontal panels where the content is updated after a set period of time.
In this recipe we will create a Visualforce page that rotates a carousel of recently closed opportunities. The page displays a single opportunity at a time and transitions between opportunities by fading out the old one and fading in the new one. We will then create a homepage component containing this page and add it to the Home page layout.
This recipe uses the jQuery (http://jquery.com/) JavaScript framework. The JavaScript file is included from the Google Hosted Libraries content delivery network rather than being uploaded as a Salesforce static resource, as this makes it straightforward to move to a new version simply by changing the URL of the included...
