[SalesForce] How to execute the standard Onclick Javascript code from Detail Page Button in a Visualforce Page

I've a custom button in the detail view of the object (type is onClick Javascript). I have a visualforce Page where I'm trying to replicate the same functionality done through the Onclick JS button in the page.

{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/30.0/connection.js")}
{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/30.0/apex.js")}
var result = 'www.google.com';
window.top.location.href = result;

I was wondering if the button code can be brought in to execute the code. Metadata API was the approach I chose. I queried the button details through Metadata and I got the simple JS working. However, when I have buttons that use connection.js & apex.js, BOOM! They don't work.

I replaced the merge fields those used in the JS script to be replaced with the actual value using a Util class. How do I get the {!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/30.0/connection.js")} scripts to work in the page as well?

Thanks in Advance!

Best Answer

If you are calling from a VF page then the code remains same but ensure that you have added scripts to the top of VF page as below:

<apex:includeScript value="/soap/ajax/30.0/connection.js"/>
<apex:includeScript value="/soap/ajax/30.0/apex.js"/>

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[SalesForce] How to execute JavaScript on a SFDC Standard Detail Page

The only way we found to insert code directly into the DOM of any Salesforce page is via a Home Page Component (Setup > Customize > Home > Home Page Components).

Create a New Custom Component, Type = HTML Area. In the editor, check the "Show HTML" checkbox in the upper right. You can then put in arbitrary HTML and JavaScript and it can traverse the DOM.

If you just want your code on a single page, create a "Wide (Right) Column" component and add it to your page layout.

If you want the code to run on every* page in SFDC, then you'll want to put it into a "Narrow (Left) Column" (often referred to as the sidebar) component, check the Setup > Customize > User Interface > Show Custom Sidebar Components on All Pages checkbox, and finally select it in Setup > Customize > Home > Home Page Layouts > your layout.

Home Page Components don't need to have any visible UI.

Chatter pages don't have the sidebar, so this won't work there. The Service Cloud Console also doesn't show the sidebar and has no equivalent, so you can't do this there either.

[SalesForce] Pass value from OnClick JavaScript Detail Page Button to a Controller

You could pass it as an encoded URL parameter:

{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/26.0/connection.js")}
{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/26.0/apex.js")}

var engID=window.sfdcPage.entityId
var postType="statement of work";   

window.location="https://rsidemo1-dev-ed--c.na24.visual.force.com/apex/VfFilePost?scontrolCaching=1&id="+engID+"&postType="+EncodingUtil.urlEncode(postType, 'UTF-8');

And then retrieve and decode it in your recipient controller:

String rawPostType = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('postType');
String postType = EncodingUtil.urlDecode(rawPostType, 'UTF-8');

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