Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Managing a list of records

Salesforce users often require the capability to work with a number of records at once. For example, a sales user may be communicating with a number of contacts, while they may also be creating or deleting contacts in response to information received through a number of channels. The Salesforce enhanced list view functionality allows a set of records that share a common record type to be inline edited but doesn't provide a way to add or remove records.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce page to allow a user to edit the details of a collection of existing contact records, and create or delete records dynamically. Upon saving the list, existing records will be updated, any new records will be inserted, and any ...