Is there a way to add static text to Page Layout? I need to provide instructional text on pages and can't see another way to achieve this
You can accomplish this in couple of ways.
Create a VF page with the static text and embed it on Page Layout
Define Field-Level Help (to add message to fields when user hovers on them) go to Your Name | Setup | Create | Objects click Edit next to field enter your text in Help Text field.
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i'm new to VF. I try to add a VF block in the standard Lead Layout.
I have created new custom fields and they ONLY show in the VF block if they are also placed in the standard Lead Layout.
I want them to only appear on the VF block because i want to arrange them in certain way that is not possible with std. Laad Layout.
Any pointers how to have them only in VF?
Are you trying to add visualforce page to page layout(inline visualforce page)? if yes then you can easily remove those fields which you don't want to show on page layout and add them only to visualforce page.
Also if you are changing edit layout then I think you can not remove some fields from layout, such as required fields,etc.
Salesforce standard fields cannot be deleted. However, many standard fields can be removed from a page layout.
To remove a standard field from a page layout, please follow the steps below:
Click on:
Non-Enhanced Setup Menu - Setup | App Setup | Customize |
Enhanced Setup Menu - Setup | Build | Customize |
Click on the name of the Page Layout and select "Edit".
Click and drag the field from the layout into the box on the top of the page layout editor
Click "Save".
see for more information:
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewSolution?id=000003629&language=en_US
Hope this helps.
I wanted to display a custom field as Read-Only on the Edit page ONLY of a custom object. This field should be hidden on the detail page. I tried wrapping the field in a section and display the section in Edit Page only(Page layout editor). That didn't work. I don't want to create a custom visual force page for the EDIT Page. Please suggest.
Thanks
Kumar
Unfortunately, there's no way to put a field on just edit or just detail. It's both or neither.
You have two options, custom Visualforce page as an Edit override is the easiest one, but if you want to leave the page layout editor as something useful to admins, there's also a very hacky option...
Create two record types, one that displays the field and one that doesn't. Create a new button that launches a Flow (with a return URL of the edit page for that object). The Flow should change the object's recordtype to the one that displays the field. Additionally, create a Process or trigger that changes the recordtype back to the one that does not display the trigger after you save the object.
I definitely recommend the VF page...
For example, to create or edit an object, when I want to add or change some value to one specific field, I need to refer another website to retrieve some info.In this way, may I add one button or link on the edit page?
The help link of SalesForce is here: https://help.salesforce.com/apex/htviewhelpdoc?id=co_edit.htm&language=en_US
Thanks.
Custom buttons and links don't display on new/edit page layouts so even if you'd make one, it will be visible only on detail view.
Not too invasive option would be to create a URL or text fied, set it's default value to your link, make sure it's displayed on the page but readonly. Haven't tried it but should work (you'll have to test it as somebody other than System Administrator because you'll bypass the readonly property of the page layout).
More invasive option would be to override the new and edit page layouts with Visualforce. More work but somewhat clean solution.
Really crazy option would be to embed a piece of Javascript into section header on the standard page layout or even into sidebar. It's an ugly hack but it works, I've used it for example to disable editing of Name field.
To use method #3:
create new section header, add something to the section (blank space is fine, you need something otherwise headers for blank sections aren't rendered), mark the section as visible on edit pages only.
Section name has limit of 80 characters but can contain code like <script>document.getElementById('Name').disabled = true;</script>. You need longer script though to somehow create an URL at runtime and append it somewhere on the page near your "special" field.
Upload a static resource with your script, then use this as the section header: <script src="filename.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
I'm not too proud of this hack and if you can - go with custom Visualforce new & edit page. It's quick & dirty, probably should be used only when you're not allowed to override pages.. but it works.
I'm trying to put a checkbox in a salesforce page but the problem is that the required message is more than 40 characters so it doesn't fit in the checkbox label (40 character max)
I tried adding two custom fields on top of the checkbox but the problem that these fields even though if they are read only the user can edit there content(text(255)) or not be able to see them(formula(text)) in edit mode.
Is there any way I can do that without creating a custom page and appending it in the page?
It isn't an ideal solution but you could create a new section on your page layout which will allow more text than a label to be displayed. Then only put your confirmation check box field in that section.
That will affectively give you the long label description you are looking for.
You can create a very simple Visualforce page:
<apex:page standardController="Account" showHeader="false" sidebar="false">
I confirm that the new account is open
</apex:page>
Set the controller to your object; I use "Account" here.
You then insert the Visualforce page directly into the page layout, just like you would a field.
It sounds like you need visualforce or S-Controls (now deprecated)
An alternate is to make a text box and prepopulate it with the info, but I think that too would need those technologies
If you come up with a solution to this- let me know.
I was wondering if there is a way to override the native functionality of the lookup field in Salesforce and replace it with a visualforce page. The reason I'm trying to override this button is because when the user does a look up, the look up returns everybody with that name. What we want to return is a list of all the contacts by account for the contact being searched.
Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
When the user clicks the lookup button my visualforce page will launch and allow the user to see the account and all the contacts of that account.
Is this even possible? What other ways would you suggest going about this?
Here's a screen shot of what I'm trying to change:
Thanks for all your help!
It sounds really like you just need to customise the columns on the lookup to make it better suited to your needs. If you go to Setup -> Customize -> Contacts -> Search Layouts, you'll see entries for Lookup Dialogs and Lookup Phone Dialogs, there you can edit the columns displayed in the lookup windows.
If you really need a custom solution:
You can't override the lookup page itself, but you could create a new visualforce page for your account, using <apex:detail> and other similar tags to make your life simpler. Then you could include a search section underneath, where a user can enter various search terms which you put into a dynamic SOQL query and then render the results for them to choose from.
yeah its possible by javascript as i did by visual force page that will show the records of related lists and upon selection id of that record passed to parent window by jscipt. and performed same functionality ..
As far as I know - NO.
As a workaround you can use JavaScript.
What we did in our situation? We implement everything in JavaScript. We created an inputText and right on the right of this inputText we placed image with this lookup icon. On image click we create ExtJS popup window (I think you can simply create VF page and show this page in popup window). After window was closed you fill in the inputText field.
There's no out-of-the-box override for this button, last I checked, so something custom would be required. If you're set on having a popup and do not want an inline solution, I'd recommend reviewing this tutorial to get familiar with some of the issues with popups in Visualforce.
But considering what you are looking to accomplish, you could also have your account and filtered list of all contacts associated with that account appear inline on your page when the user clicks a new, custom search button. Of course that page would itself be in Visualforce (or inline Visualforce in a standard page layout) - which you may or may not want to have to code and maintain.
The AJAX Toolkit might also be a good place to start if you want to go with a custom JavaScript button placed on a standard page layout.