archive for visualforce

lookup –> picklist

I’ve had several clients “voice concerns” about Salesforce.com’s lookup functionality relative to user acceptance. Well, if you’re dealing with a relatively simple lookup table, you can override an object’s new/edit page with a Visualforce page and display the lookup field to the user as a picklist.

extjs & visualforce (part 2), JSON this time

Let me preface this post by stating that the following is merely a proof of concept and should not necessarily be implemented into a production org. The pagination demonstrated below is not fit for large datasets and may result in unexpected behavior!
Rich Waters’ comment on my first post re: Ext JS & [...]

extjs & visualforce

I’m interested to hear how people are utilizing extjs in their visualforce pages. I’ve found it very helpful to use Apex to generate the store on the server side, then pass it along to the Visualforce page via a hidden input to be handled on the client side (rather than use the apex:repeat tags).
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wrapper class and force.com sites

Force.com Sites was announced last week at Dreamforce ‘08 and what a game changing announcement it was. Here’s my foray into Sites development, with nifty sample code…

visualforce autocomplete component

I saw this on the boards and I wanted to make sure everyone knew it was out there.
http://www.jonathanrm.com/blog/?p=12