Haven’t blogged for more than a year… My last post was February 22, 2010 to be exact. Wheeew! Well, I didn’t vanished… I just got busy with a lot of “cloud computing” tasks. 

After years of creating nice and great looking websites for my clients, I realized that I have to revamp my old website’s layout. The HTML version has been occupying my laptop’s storage for more than six months already. Though it’s not totally polished yet, I’m too excited to share it to the world that’s why I’m now officially launching it! 

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This post is about creating a custom button to be placed in a detail page using Visualforce page instead of an S-control (deprecated). I will be using Opportunity object for this example.

The Controller:

public class VFController
{
    private final ApexPages.StandardController theController;
    public List<Opportunity> listOpps = new List<Opportunity>();
 
    public VFController(ApexPages.StandardController stdController)
    {
          theController = stdController;
    }
    // Code we will invoke on page load.
    public PageReference autoRun()
    {
        for (Opportunity opp:[select id, name from Opportunity where id =:theController.getId()])
            {
	        opp.Name = opp.name + ' test';
                listOpps.add(opp);
	    }
		Database.update(listOpps);
 
	return theController.view().setRedirect(true);
    }
}

The Visualforce Page:

You don’t need to do anything special here. The most important part here is the parameter action = “{!autoRun}”.

<apex:page standardController="Opportunity"
extensions="VFController"
action="{!autoRun}"
>
<apex:sectionHeader title="Invoking Apex from a Button"/>
<apex:outputPanel>
You shoudn't see this page...
</apex:outputPanel>
</apex:page>

After that, go to Setup –> App Setup –> Customize –> Opportunities –> Buttons and Links. Add a new custom button with the following configuration.

This example simply appends “test” to the Opportunity name when you click on that custom button. This is only to show you that it works. Hope this helps.

This doesn’t really sound like MLTR! LOL!

Lyrics:

The first time I heard this song I already liked it. Originally, it’s a Gilmore Girls soundtrack. Check the YouTube video. I hope you guys like this too.

Lyrics:

How to Dream by Sam Phillips

Xai and I didn’t go home for Christmas, our family went here instead.

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