Prepare to be entertained! Live music, the most exciting and memorable safe harbor slide EVER, and we'll give you a toolkit of tips and tricks to get the most out of Visualforce, without writing a line of Apex Code. Join us to learn how to delight your users with more useful, dynamic Visualforce pages using techniques such as JavaScript web components, Force.com Sites, and PDF output. You'll be surprised how much you can get done without reaching for Apex.

1. Pushing Visualforce to the Limits
Without Apex
Joseph, Ucuzoglu, The Broad Center, Deputy Director of Information Systems

3. All about
Session Goals / Agenda
Provide you with some useful takeaways and entertainment!
▪ Add/Delete VF fields within the declarative interface
▪ Creating tabbed object layouts with Visualforce
▪ Embed Visualforce pages into your website

4. My #1 Challenge, Help You Avoid this….

5. I may want to show you this
But your mind wants to know more
about this…

6. No need to take notes!
All code samples,
the presentation,
and more…
will be posted in Chatter
So relax and enjoy the show

7. Unfortunate Business of the
Safe Harbor Slide
Please welcome my organization’s
Operations Associate

8. Safe harbor
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9. Special Guest
Safe Harbor Slide Vocalist
Xoichitl Flores

10. You ALWAYS need APEX to do
really cool stuff…
• Code Deployments
• Longer to Develop
• Test Coverage
• Difficulty
• Governor Limits
That’s like saying *ALL* Safe Harbor
slides are boring!

11. Problem:
Use
1
We want to allow Administrators to add/delete fields from some VF pages without having
to edit VF code.

12. Solution:
Use
1
Use Fieldsets on our VF page and then add/remove fields via the field set within the
declarative interface.

13. Why not just expect people to edit the VF code?

14. Adding a fieldset is easy
> Select your object > Field Set (Beta) > New

15. In Practice

16. A very simple Visualforce page with a Field Set

17. Putting it all together
Create your Visualforce Page
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_vf/workbook_vf.pdf
Working with Field Sets
http://www.salesforce.
com/us/developer/docs/pages/Content/pages_dynamic_vf_field_sets.
htm

18. Problem:
Use
2
The page layouts for objects are getting too long and unwieldy. It is becoming difficult /
time consuming to find information.

19. Solution:
Use
2
Re-architect the layout within Visualforce utilizing tabs to present information concisely.

20. How did we get such large records?
We came to an understanding organization wide.

21. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 1

22. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 2

23. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 3

24. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 4

25. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 5

26. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 6

27. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 7

28. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 8

29. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 9

30. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 10

31. Bloated Contact Layout - Page 11!!!

32. Tabbed layout

33. Tab Panel / Detail Section
Tab Panel
Detail Section

34. Including Related Lists
Related List Apex Tab
Locating the List Value

35. Bonus Tip – Colored Active Tab

36. Putting it all together
Create your Visualforce Page
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_vf/workbook_vf.pdf
Create tabbed pages in VisualForce
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Tabbed_Accounts_in_30_seconds
Jeff Douglas Blog – Using Related Lists in
Visualforce Pages
http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2009/05/13/using-related-lists-in-visualforcepages/

37. Problem:
Use
3
We want to display/accept information from a custom object within our organizations
website.

38. Solution:
Use
3
Create a Visualforce page and embed it into our website using a Sites page.

39. Step #1 – Create the Visual Force Page

40. Step #2 – Create the Sites Page
• Update Custom Object Permissions
• Adjust Field Level Security (Mark
necessary fields as Visible)

41. The side by side comparison

42. Step #3 – Embed the page utilizing an iFrame

43. Putting it all together
Create your Visualforce Page
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_vf/workbook_vf.pdf
Create a Sites Page
http://wiki.developerforce.
com/page/An_Introduction_to_Force.com_Sites
Edit the Guest User Profile Permissions
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_siteforce/wb_siteforce.p

44. Quick Recap
Why Visualforce (without Apex)
• Code Deployments
• Longer to Develop
• Test Coverage
• Difficulty
Examples we explored
• Governor Limits
▪ Add/Delete VF fields within the declarative interface
▪ Creating tabbed object layouts with Visualforce
▪ Embed Visualforce pages into your website

45. Additional Bonus Materials *not shown in the presentation*
Create PDF documents from VF pages (Including auto page
numbering)
Create Dynamic Tables in Visual Force in 3 steps

46. All Materials will be posted in the Session Chatter Feed
Use Fieldsets to Modify Fields on Visualforce pages
Consolidate Data Presentation With Tabbed Layouts
Collect data from a public website and record that information in Salesforce
Create PDF documents from PDF pages (Including auto page numbering)
Create Dynamic Tables in Visual Force in 3 steps

47. Joseph Ucuzoglu
Deputy Director of Information Systems,
The Broad Center
Xochitl Flores
Operations Associate,
The Broad Center