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Published inSep 2013
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ISBN-139781782170808
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Keir Bowden
Keir Bowden
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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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Collapsible list elements


When a number of records and related information are rendered as a list, a user is often presented with a large amount of data that they must scroll through in order to access the items that they are interested in. One way to improve this is to allow items to be collapsed, showing enough headline information to allow the item to be identified, but taking up the minimum amount of screen real estate.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce page that displays a list of account records and their associated contact records. Each account record is collapsed when the page is initially rendered, and the user may click a record to expand it and see the associated contact information.

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Visualforce provides collapsible behavior for the standard <apex:pageBlockSection /> component. However, this forces the content to be expanded or collapsed to be nested inside this component, which styles the content in a similar fashion to a standard Salesforce section. The solution...

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Published in: Sep 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782170808

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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.
Read more about Keir Bowden