I'm new to Salesforce/Apex and I need to be able to test a component I am working on in a separate page.
Here is the scenario. I have the following test page:
<apex:page sidebar="false" showHeader="false" standardController="Contact">
<div id="wrapper" style="max-width:980px;">
<c:djEmailTemplate_MainComponent sObject="{!Contact}" theContactId="{!Contact.Id}"/>
</div>
</apex:page>
I can display the page by adding /apex/testpage to the url after the project name.
What I don't know how to do is to include data to satisfy the parameters (sObject, theContactId) that are needed to populate values in the component.
Can anyone explain how I can do this?
Thanks in advance.
Your test page uses the Contact object as its standard controller, so in most cases you would want to specify a Contact record for the page/controller to operate on. You can use any existing Contact record in your org, or create a new one (specifically you'll want to grab the ID of the record) and then append the ID to the URL you're using like so: /apex/testpage?id=003xxxxxxxxxxxx. This will provide the page and controller a record to pass to the VF component.
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I am working with visualforce. Is there a way to get the fieldname from the id in the rerendered section of the visualforce page.
{!$CurrentPage.parameters.cid} gives me the id. Suppose that cid has the id of the contact object. How can i display certain fields of the contact object in the outputpanel. I tried the but it gave whole detail. I only want certain fields.
Hope you are referencing this documentation in your work. $CurrentPage.parameters.parameter_name is a way of getting query string parameters in Visuaforce and there is nothing to do with that for altering the fields you need in the Contact section.
If you are using <apex:detail /> for the Contact section, what you can do is update your Contact object detail page layout as you need.
Suppose we have a custom salesforce controller and a custom visualforce page for it. at the end of the visualforce page I like to evaluate a public member variable of the controller and if it is true I like to add the contents of another visualforce page (e.g. apex/test) to the first page.
<apex:page controller="mycontroller">
...........
my tags and page contents comes here
...........
{!if(my_member_variable == true, attach contents of "apex/test" page to end of this page, "do nothing")}
</apex:page>
How can I do that?
In simple words, I am searching for a command similar to include() on PHP for visualforce.
Thanks,
Sounds like you want to use an apex:include along with its rendered attribute.
<apex:page controller="mycontroller">
<!-- ... -->
<apex:include pageName="TheNameOfTheIncludedPage" rendered="{!my_member_variable}"/>
</apex:page>
Incidentally. The salesforce.stackExchange.com is a great place to ask Salesforce specific questions.
I'm working to customize liferay's Calendar portlet and have created a hook for this.
I want to show all the "Related Assets" associated with a Calendar Event directly in the list page itself where all the Events are displayed instead of the Event's detail view page.
Currently liferay shows the "Related Assets" only when we click on the Event to view the details of that Event.
Can anyone help me?
Environment: Liferay 6.1
Thanks a lot
Sabrina
I assume you already have liferay's source code and you know how to create a hook.
The JSPs you would be modifying would be in this path:
portal-web/docroot/html/portlet/calendar
So here are some steps to help you solve your query:
You need to modify the event_iterator.jspf: row.addText(event.getTitle(), rowURL);
You have to adjust the following code taken from view_event.jsp in event_iterator.jspf.
<%
AssetEntry layoutAssetEntry = AssetEntryLocalServiceUtil.getEntry(CalEvent.class.getName(), event.getEventId());
%>
<%-- <liferay-util:buffer> is a tag which stores all that is written inside
its body in a single variable string, in this case "relatedAssetsLinksBuffer"
--%>
<liferay-util:buffer var="relatedAssetsLinksBuffer">
<c:if test="<%= enableRelatedAssets %>">
<%=event.getTitle() %>
<div class="entry-links">
<liferay-ui:asset-links
assetEntryId="<%= layoutAssetEntry.getEntryId() %>"
/>
</div>
</c:if>
</liferay-util:buffer>
Now the line in step-1 becomes: row.addText(relatedAssetsLinksBuffer, rowURL);
I have not tried this but I think it would work or will atleast give you some help in solving your query.
Tip for Hooks (might be useful in future):
Liferay follows a convention in storing its JSPs, so for custom-jsps Hook (i.e. a hook created for modifying liferay's JSP) you just need to search for that particular JSP & modify it.
For Eg: You wanted to modify the first page of calendar portlet. So liferay portlet's first page is always view.jsp located in the folder with the same name as the portlet-name in this case "Calendar" and view.jsp will contain some tags like <%# include /> or <liferay-util:include /> which would include other files to show the content. So you can always start with a view.jsp and navigate ahead. By the way the names of the JSPs are also most of the time self-explanatory.
Hope this helps.
I have a VF page in which i have related lists displayed using
<apex:relatedList list="NOTESANDATTACHMENTS"/>
Is there a way i can have the link of the related list on the top of the page like the ones in standard page? The reason for this is that my VF page is pretty long and the user needs to scroll to get the view the notes and attachment list.
is there any way we can achieve this?
Thanks
Not directly, but you can always use anchor links.
Go to related list
...
<a id="mylist" />
<apex:relatedList list="NOTESANDATTACHMENTS"/>
The relationship name for the Notes and Attachments related list has been changed in winter 14 release.
you can show the attachement in the relatedlist tag.
apex:relatedList list="CombinedAttachments" subject="{!$CurrentPage.parameters.id}"
in the VF page if you are using Standard controller then there is no need to add subject attribute.
I have a custom link on the opportunity object which points to an external site. Is it possible to add this custom link to a visualforce page?
The solution I came up with was to copy the url salesforce creates for this custom link, and paste it in the page. It looks something like this:
my custom link
This works fine, however, it won't work once it's in a managed package installed on other servers because the lid param will be different (the custom link id). Is there a solution for this?
Have you thought about putting the URL of the link in a field on the opportunity object and then creating an output link on your VF page?
Paul
Look under $Action. Buttons and links are available via that global variable. For example $Action.Opportunity.CustomLink
To build off the answer from danieljimenez, the $Action global variable provides access to the button/link objects. From there you need to use the URLFOR function to get it into a usable form. Then you can either put it into the action param of a command button, or use it as you'd like anywhere else in your markup.
<apex:commandButton action="{!URLFOR($Action.My_Obj__c.My_custom_link)}" value="My custom button"/>
or
My link
create New Contact (Salesforce button target _blank)
<apex:commandLink target="_blank"
styleClass="btn"
style="text-decoration:none;padding:4px;"
action="{!URLFOR($Action.Contact.NewContact)}"
value="Create New Contact" />