Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Retrieving content from Salesforce

Force.com sites allow unauthenticated visitors access to custom (and some standard) Salesforce  sObjects. While providing public access to data stored in Salesforce might seem like a security risk, it is a perfect fit for dynamically-generated website content; content authors don't need to know to be able to edit Visualforce pages in order to update the content of the site.

In this recipe we will create a Visualforce page that renders content from the three most recently edited records of a custom sObject. We will then make this page publicly available via an unauthenticated Force.com site.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have already completed the Creating a site recipe, as it relies on the custom domain ...