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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Force.com Enterprise Architecture Blend industry best practices to architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172994
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Leveraging Platform Features 3. Application Storage 4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns 5. Application Service Layer 6. Application Domain Layer 7. Application Selector Layer 8. User Interface 9. Providing Integration and Extensibility 10. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 11. Source Control and Continuous Integration Index

Visualforce


Visualforce is not only a powerful way to create entirely new pages for your application but also augments the Salesforce user interface in multiple places. As we've seen so far, you can use it to extend the standard UI layouts and Custom Buttons. Here is a list of platform areas that accept Visualforce pages:

  • Layout sections

  • Custom Buttons

  • Custom Tabs

  • Custom Tab Splash page

  • Chatter Custom Publisher Actions

  • Sidebar component

  • Dashboard component

  • Force.com sites

Profiles and Permission Sets also reference Visualforce pages; users must be given access to a page before they can use it from these areas.

What can I do within a Visualforce page?

While Salesforce provides many components to use within the Visualforce pages, the only component that is strictly required is the apex:page component. That's it!

<apex:page>Anything I like in here!</apex:page>

When studying the attributes of the apex:page component, it's clear that this is a powerful way to communicate with the browser, returning...

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