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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

Custom Publisher Actions


In a previous chapter, we created a Publisher Action to mark a Contestant as a DNF (Did not Finish) object easily from a Chatter feed. This leveraged the declarative approach to creating Publisher Actions, based on creating or updating a related record. If your use case does not fit into this type of operations, you can use Visualforce page to develop a Custom Publisher Action. Keep in mind that these are also available to your users through the Salesforce1 mobile application.

At the time of writing this, there is no API support to determine what context the page is running in, other than sensing the HTTP User Agent header value and adjusting the layout and styling accordingly. As Salesforce continues to improve their API's around Salesforce1, hopefully, this will be improved soon.

Certainly, Custom Publisher Actions and Salesforce1 mobile is an area that requires further development by Salesforce compared to the more declarative aspects of the application. As Salesforce1...

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