Tag Archives: Customization

Custom sidebar: Pop up a modal dialog with content from static resource

Salesforce org’s sidebar can be customized by HTML so is often used for placing small components like a table or some hyperlinks to external web pages. Static resources can be used to host any type of files and easily referenced by Visualforce pages and apex classes. So this brings the idea of writing web widgets …

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Customization: Conditionally display a message on the standard detail page

Ever wonder dynamically displaying a warning or information message on an object’s detail page without affecting whatever layout is used? Here is a simple requirement: you have an object called MyObject. If you go to view any MyObject record that is created today, you will see an information message “Hello world!” at top of the …

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