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Defining Custom S-Controls
S-controls provide a flexible, open means of extending the Salesforce user interface, including the ability to create and display your own custom data forms.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Available in: Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create, edit, and delete custom s-controls: | Customize Application |
An s-control can contain any type of content that you can display or run in a browser, for example, a Java applet, an ActiveX control, an Excel file, or a custom HTML Web form.
The custom s-control library is a place where you can store and upload content for use in many areas within Salesforce such as, custom links, Web tabs, custom buttons, and dashboards.
- From Setup, enter S-Controls in the Quick Find box, then select S-Controls.
- To create a new custom s-control, click New Custom S-Control.
- To change an existing custom s-control, click Edit.
- Enter s-control attributes.
- To validate all Salesforce merge fields and functions, click Check Syntax.
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Click Save when you finish or click Quick Save to
save and continue editing.
Note If you have a namespace prefix and your s-control references merge fields without their namespace prefix, Salesforce automatically prepends them with your namespace prefix. - Create a custom button or link to display the custom s-control to your users. Alternatively, create a Web tab using the custom s-control, add the s-control to a page layout, or add the s-control to a dashboard. You can also use an s-control as online help content for a custom object.
- About S-Controls
Use s-controls to add your own functionality to your Salesforce organization. Whether you are integrating a hosted application of your own or are extending your current Salesforce user interface, use s-controls to store your code or refer to code elsewhere. Custom s-controls can contain any type of content that you can display in a browser, for example a Java applet, an Active-X control, an Excel file, or a custom HTML Web form. - View and Edit S-Controls
View and make changes to the details of a custom s-control. - Custom S-Control Attributes
Find out about custom S-Control attributes. - Delete Custom S-Controls
S-controls provide a flexible, open means of extending the Salesforce user interface, including the ability to create and display your own custom data forms. - Tips on Building S-Controls
Use these tips when building s-controls. - Useful S-Controls
Use these samples to get started using s-controls. - Merge Fields for S-Controls
A merge field is a field you can put in an email template, mail merge template, custom link, or formula to incorporate values from a record. - How Do Visualforce Pages Compare to S-Controls?
Visualforce pages are considered the next-generation of s-controls and should be used instead of s-controls whenever possible, both for their increased performance and the ease with which they can be written.
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