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
Override Buttons, Links, and Tabs with Visualforce
Considerations for Customizing Overrides
Overriding Tabs Using a Standard List Controller
Define Custom Buttons and Links to Visualforce Pages
Adding Custom List Buttons using Standard List Controllers
Displaying Record Types
Remove a Custom Override
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 Visualforce Component Reference
Appendices
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Overriding Tabs Using a Standard List Controller

Pages that use standard list controllers can be used to override tabs. For example, if you create a page named overrideAccountTab that is associated with the Account standard list controller:
1<apex:page standardController="Account" recordSetVar="accounts" tabStyle="account">
2  <apex:pageBlock >
3    <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!accounts}" var="a">
4      <apex:column value="{!a.name}"/>
5    </apex:pageBlockTable>
6  </apex:pageBlock>
7</apex:page>
Then, you can override the Account tab to display that page instead of the standard Account home page.
  1. From the object management settings for accounts, go to Buttons, Links, and Actions.
  2. Click Edit for the Accounts Tab.
  3. From the Visualforce Page drop-down list, select the overrideAccountTab page.
  4. Click Save.

Make sure you have made this page available to all your users by setting the page level security appropriately.

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