Visualforce Developer Guide

Introducing Visualforce
Tools for Visualforce Development
Getting a Quick Start with Visualforce
Customizing the Appearance and Output of Visualforce Pages
Standard Controllers
Standard List Controllers
Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions
Advanced Examples
Creating Your First Custom Controller
Creating a Wizard
Create Advanced Visualforce Dashboard Components
Integrating Visualforce and Google Charts
Mass Updating Records with a Custom List Controller
Override Buttons, Links, and Tabs with Visualforce
Using Static Resources
Creating and Using Custom Components
Dynamic Visualforce Bindings
Dynamic Visualforce Components
Integrate Email with Visualforce
Visualforce Charting
Creating Maps with Visualforce
Render Flows with Visualforce
Templating with Visualforce
Developing Salesforce Apps with Visualforce
Adding Visualforce to a Salesforce AppExchange App
Using JavaScript in Visualforce Pages
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Visualforce Best Practices
Standard Component Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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Create Advanced Visualforce Dashboard Components

Create a Visualforce page with a custom list controller, then use it as a dashboard component.
Available in: Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs)
Available in: all editions

Visualforce pages as dashboard components are only available in Salesforce Classic. In Lightning Experience, you can create a custom tab and use that as a dashboard for your custom lightning components.

To be included in a dashboard, a Visualforce page must use a custom controller, use a standard or custom list controller, or not have a controller. You can’t add a Visualforce page with a standard controller to a dashboard. Only Visualforce pages that meet these requirements appear as options in the Data Sources tab.

Note

This Visualforce dashboard component displays all of the open cases associated with a contact named “Barbara Levy.”
  1. Create a custom list controller called retrieveCase.
  2. Create a Visualforce page that uses the retrieveCase custom controller.
  3. To add the Visualforce page to a dashboard, see Add a Dashboard Component in Salesforce Classic.
A Visualforce dashboard titled Barbara Levy's Cases