Chapter 4. Managing Records

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Styling fields as required
  • Styling table columns as required
  • Attaching an image to a record
  • Managing attachments
  • Maintaining custom settings
  • Refreshing record details from embedded Visualforce
  • Using wrapper classes
  • Changing options based on the user input
  • Changing page layout based on the user input
  • Form-based searching

Introduction

One of the common use cases for Visualforce pages is to simplify, streamline, or enhance the management of sObject records. In earlier chapters, we covered how Visualforce can be used to provide a custom user interface to create and edit records.

In this chapter, we will use Visualforce to carry out some more advanced customization of the user interface-redrawing ...

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