I’ve come across the scenario a number of times where a client would like to have the ability to capture someone’s signature and keep it on a record in Salesforce. This post describes a simple way to capture signatures in Salesforce using Visualforce, HTML5 Canvas, and Javascript Remoting. First, we start with a visualforce component […]
Here’s a quick and easy way to add a spinner to a Visualforce page for when a user invokes an asynchronous action on a page and is waiting for an element to rerender. Add the following snippet to your visualforce page: <apex:actionStatus id=”pageStatus”> <apex:facet name=”start”> <apex:outputPanel > <img src=”/img/loading32.gif” width=”25″ height=”25″ /> <apex:outputLabel value=”Loading…”/> </apex:outputPanel> […]
You can access the Label attribute of a field directly from a Visualforce page by using the following: <apex:outputLabel value=”{!$ObjectType.Account.fields.Name.label}” /> This gets the label for the “Name” field from the “Account” object. You can interchange any sObject name and it’s corresponding field as needed.
There are times where you may need to access fieldsets in APEX to dynamically generate pages in Visualforce. In Apex, there are 2 main ways to do this, and you can select which approach you need based on what data you have available at runtime. Getting Fieldsets in Visualforce You can access fieldsets directly from a […]
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