1) Visualforce allows users to build customized user interfaces for Salesforce using an MVC framework and Visualforce markup tags. 2) Visualforce pages can be used to create internal and public facing pages, dashboards, and customized components. 3) In Salesforce 1, Visualforce pages can appear in the navigation menu, as publisher actions, or on record home pages as mobile cards. Certain considerations need to be made to optimize Visualforce pages for the mobile environment.

1. Customized UI with Visualforce in the
Context of Salesforce 1
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2. Hervé Maleville
Platform Architect
@hmaleville
Heinz Ebensperger
Solution Architect, salesforce.com

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4. What can you do with Visualforce?
 Framework to build custom user interfaces
 Hosted natively on Force.com
 Build streamlined UX
 Create internal and public facing pages
 Customize for different devices
 Leverage other web technologies

5. Model View Controller (MVC) Pattern
Standard or Custom Objects
Standard or Custom
Controllers
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Controllers, Verbindung

6. Visualforce Markup
 Visualforce tags
– 100+ standard components
– Custom components
 Works with all standard web technologies
including:
– CSS
– JavaScript
– HTML
– Flash
– Any other Web-Enabled Code

7. Visualforce Controllers
 Provides access to data
 Logic for handling UI interaction
 Standard Controllers
– Same functionality as standard pages
• Save, delete, field access etc.
 Custom Controllers
– Written in Apex
– Override standard behavior
 Controller Extensions

8. What can you do with Visualforce?

9. … what else?
Implement
Custom Logic
Dashboard
Components
Custom Pages
Customized
Charts
Embedded
Section in Detail
Pages
And many more…

10. …and keep in mind…
 Visualforce is great to build fancy pages, but
– try to use Point and Click at first.
 Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is
essential
– Basic knowledge is required
• for basic Pages
– You’ll need deeper knowledge
• for more advanced Pages!

11. In the context of Salesforce 1 Apps
 Visualforce pages can appear in 3
places
– Navigation Menu
– Publisher Action
– Record Home page
• As mobile card
 When using Vforce you can detect
using
– if(sforce.one)
...other things to consider for VF Pages

12. …important to remember…
 Opening tag apex:page
– docType=“html-5.0”
– standardStylesheet=“false”
 Flag as ‘Available for Salesforce Mobile Apps’
 Extend Standard Controller for:
– Page Layouts
– Mobile Cards
– Publisher Actions
 Use ‘sforce.one’-Object for Navigation

13. Styleguide/s
– http://sfdc-styleguide.herokuapp.com/
– http://sfdc-styleguide.herokuapp.com/assets/S1AppGuidelines.pdf

14. Heinz Ebensperger
Solution Architect, salesforce.com