What this book covers

Chapter 1 , General Utilities, covers enhancing or replacing standard functionality with Visualforce, systemizing business processes, guiding users through the creation and ongoing management of data, and writing effective tests.

Chapter 2, Custom Components, demonstrates how to create custom Visualforce components to encapsulate functionality for reuse across multiple pages and techniques to allow communication between component and page controllers.

Chapter 3, Capturing Data Using Forms, describes how to capture data entered in a Visualforce page and send this to the server for processing.

Chapter 4, Managing Records, offers techniques to streamline and enhance the management of Salesforce data using Visualforce pages, using styling to indicate required fields and changing pages in response to user actions.

Chapter 5, Managing Multiple Records, covers recipes to manage multiple records in a single page, ranging from editing parent and child records to managing a deep and wide hierarchy.

Chapter 6, Visualforce Charts, presents a series of recipes to create charts of increasing complexity, embed a chart into a standard Salesforce page, and add multiple charts to a single page in a similar style to a Salesforce dashboard.

Chapter 7, Enhancing the Client with JavaScript, shows how to use JavaScript to provide a variety of client-side enhancements, including confirmation of user actions, instant feedback on user inputs, and speeding up pages that access server-side data via remote methods.

Chapter 8, Force.com Sites, provides step-by-step instructions to configure a publicly accessible website styled with the Lightning Design System, allowing visitors to access the Salesforce records and extract boilerplate content to reusable templates.

Chapter 9, Visualforce in Salesforce1, demonstrates how Visualforce can be used to enhance the user experience on the Salesforce1 mobile device, including capturing the user’s location and attaching images when creating records.

Chapter 10, Troubleshooting, covers some common error scenarios and how to avoid them, along with tips to improve performance by reducing the size of the Visualforce viewstate and page load time in general.