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Andrew Fawcett
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Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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Generating downloadable content

The contentType attribute allows you to control how the browser interprets the page output; with this attribute, you can, for example, output some CSV, JSON, or XML content. Using a controller binding, this can be dynamically generated output. This can be useful to generate content to download. The following changes have been made to the FormulaForce application and are included in the code for this chapter:

  • Added a new method, generateSummaryAsCSV, to RaceService
  • Added a new getCSVContent method to RaceSummaryController
  • Added a new racesummaryascsv Visualforce page
  • Added a new Custom Button, Download Summary, to the Race layout

The new method is added to the existing RaceSummaryController class, but is only used by the new page. Feel free to review the new Service method; note that it also uses the ContestantsSelector.selectByRaceIdWithContestantSummary...

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Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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