Sometimes, we would want the Standard buttons (like NEW, EDIT, VIEW etc) to take the user to a Visualforce page.

This article discusses in detail about the various options available.

Overriding Standard Buttons

<apex:page standardcontroller="Account" extensions="customext">
    
     Your code here

</apex:page>

How to Bypass the Override and go to the standard action??

Credits:  http://www.jqeasy.com/

In some cases, you might want to display a character count to notify the user that they can enter only a certain number of characters in  a text box in a Visualforce page.







There is a javascript file that you need to use to achieve the above behavior. The file was downloaded from jqeasy.com, i uploaded the file here in case you are not able to locate the file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5FQvDdE4z0PZU9JdC1mVk1BU28/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-rI8WqomT9R9kZACQz_7RHw

STEP 1:

Download the file at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5FQvDdE4z0PZU9JdC1mVk1BU28/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-rI8WqomT9R9kZACQz_7RHw and upload it into Static Resources. Let's say we name the file as "CharCounter".

STEP 2:

Create a Visualforce Page with the code below.




Analyzing the code:

If you check the code, you could see that we have the 'styleclass' attribute specified for the inputtextarea's.

And this styleclass name is used in the document.ready() function to specify the character limits. You could use the 'id' attribute as well, but make sure you reference id's using the $Component notation.

I had a couple of Visualforce Page forms. Each form had multiple input boxes for the user to input information.

I had a save button at the top and bottom of the page. But still, sometimes the user might accidentally close or navigate to some other page.

Auto Saving the page in regular intervals was so nice to have. To do this we will use with  a mix of Javascript and Apex.


Create a Visualforce Page with the code below.


Create an Apex Class with the code as given below.