Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Adding a custom lookup to a form

The Salesforce standard lookup functionality renders a dialog that supports a small amount of customization. The fields displayed may be configured; if Enhanced Lookups has been enabled, the results can be filtered and ordered, and large result sets may be paged through. The lookup dialog's layout cannot be altered nor branded , nor can it contain additional help text.

In this recipe, we will create a Visualforce lookup page that replaces the lookup dialog and provides additional instructions to the user. An additional Visualforce page will demonstrate how this can be integrated into a custom opportunity create page.

Getting ready

This recipe makes use of a custom controller, so this will need to be created before ...