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UI Tips and Tricks – Inline Visualforce Resize

A real frustration with inline Visualforce pages (added to standard page layouts) is the static nature of the height setting. From the layout we can set a specific height, but ideally we want the height set dynamically from the content height. Sounds like a simple enough requirement, however, the fact that the VF page section […]

UI Tips and Tricks – Country List

This tip introduces a simple pattern used by many AppExchange solutions to manipulate standard layouts. In short, a custom sidebar component is added which contains JavaScript code which manipulates the page at the DOM level. The following simple example shows how the country fields on the account layout can be changed to lists – a […]

UI Tips and Tricks – Picture Upload

In the very early 90s I was employed as a professional Visual Basic programmer (and no that isn’t a contradiction in terms) enjoying greatly the development of client-server accounting systems. Good times. In those days tips and tricks sites were a big part of how the community shared knowledge. Following some recent reminiscing, through this […]