Data Controls Implementation Guide

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Loose Coupled Controls

The Hierarchy Manager and History IDC controls are loosely coupled with the third-party applications in which they are embedded. The URL that invokes the control is the only interface between the control and the third-party application. The control is unaware of the containing third-party application and does not communicate with it.

The details of embedding an IDC control in a third-party application depend on the particular application. As an example, here is a Salesforce.com VisualForce page for an Account that includes a Hierarchy Manager control.

<apex:page standardController="Account" showHeader="true" tabStyle="account" >
   <style>
      .activeTab {background-color: #236FBD; color:white; background-image:none}
      .inactiveTab { background-color: lightgrey; color:black; background-image:none}
   </style>
   <apex:tabPanel switchType="client" selectedTab="tabdetails" 
                  id="AccountTabPanel" tabClass="activeTab" 
                  inactiveTabClass="inactiveTab">   
      <apex:tab label="Details" name="AccDetails" id="tabdetails">
         <apex:detail relatedList="false" title="true"/>        
                     
         <apex:iframe
             src="http://hostname:port/bdd/bdc/hmEn/sag:Party,systemName:SFA,sourceKey: {!$CurrentPage.parameters.id}/hm/component.jsf" 
             height="500" scrolling="false" id="siperianHM1"/>                             
         
         <apex:relatedList subject="{!account}" list="contacts" />
         <apex:relatedList subject="{!account}" list="opportunities" />
         <apex:relatedList subject="{!account}" list="OpenActivities" />
      </apex:tab>
   </apex:tabPanel>
</apex:page>

In this example, the

http://hostname:port/bdd/bdc/hmEn/sag:Party,systemName:SFA,sourceKey: {!$CurrentPage.parameters.id}/hm/component.jsf

URL invokes the control. This URL uses the system name and source key to invoke the control. The system name is a constant –

SFA

. The source key is dynamic -

{!$CurrentPage.parameters.id}

. This is the VisualForce syntax used to substitute the ID for the current account.

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