Navigating between pages

Navigation in Salesforce1 is based on JavaScript events rather than URLs, which means a different approach needs to be taken to simply rendering HTML links. The navigation functionality is made available to Visualforce pages in Salesforce1 via the sforce.one JavaScript object.

This object provides a number of navigation functions, but the key ones are:

  • navigateToURL: This navigates to the specified URL, which may be internal or external
  • navigateToSObject: This navigates to the home page for a specific sObject record

Note

Full details of the sforce.one object can be found at: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.salesforce1.meta/salesforce1/salesforce1_dev_jsapi_sforce_one.htm?search_text=navigate.

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