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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › Implementing client side search using Javascript in salesforce

    Tagged: Account, Javascript in Salesforce, Salesforce Apex Controller, Salesforce Visualforce, Salesforce Visualforce Page, Search Box, SOQL, SOQL Query

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      Implementing client side search using Javascript in salesforce

      Posted by Kumar on January 4, 2017 at 1:51 PM

      Hi everyone,

      I am a beginner in using Javascript for my VF pages, I have a visualforce page which searches an account on the basis of account name from all the accounts displayed on the page (all the accounts are fetched using a SOQL query in the page controller).

      Right now I have implemented the search with an apex controller, which uses an SOQL query from the server side to fetch the account.

      How can I implement this by using Javascript on my page?

      Any suggestions or resources to study are appreciated.

      Thanks

      Shekhar Gadewar replied 9 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
      • Account
      • Javascript in Salesforce
      • Salesforce Apex Controller
      • Salesforce Visualforce
      • Salesforce Visualforce Page
      • Search Box
      • SOQL
      • SOQL Query
    • 3 Replies
    • Shekhar Gadewar

      Member
      January 4, 2017 at 2:23 PM

      Hi Kumar,

       

      Can u share ur current work so it will help other group members

       

      Regards,

      Shekhar

    • [adinserter block='9']
    • Kumar

      Member
      January 5, 2017 at 7:00 AM

      Here is my code:

      VF Page:

      <apex:page controller=”CustomAccountController”>

      <script>
      function search(){
      ApexMethod();
      }

      </script>

      <apex:form >
      <apex:actionFunction name=”ApexMethod” action=”{!searchAccounts}” reRender=”accountTable”/>
      <apex:pageBlock >

      <apex:outputText >Account Name</apex:outputText>
      <apex:inputText value=”{!name}” onkeyup=”search();”/>
      <apex:pageBlockSection columns=”3″>

      <apex:pageBlockTable id=”accountTable” value=”{!accounts}” var=”acc”>
      <apex:column value=”{!acc.Name}”/>
      <apex:column value=”{!acc.Id}”/>
      <apex:column value=”{!acc.AnnualRevenue}”/>
      </apex:pageBlockTable>

      </apex:pageBlockSection>

      </apex:pageBlock>

      </apex:form>

      </apex:page>

      Controller:

      public class CustomAccountController {

      public list<Account> accounts { get; set; }
      public String name { get; set; }

      public CustomAccountController(){
      accounts = new list<Account>();
      accounts = [Select Name,Id,AnnualRevenue From Account];
      }

      public pageReference searchAccounts(){

      string query = ”;

      if(name != ”){

      query = ‘Select Name,Id,AnnualRevenue From Account Where Name like \”+name+’%\”;
      accounts = database.query(query);
      }
      else{

      query = ‘Select Name,Id,AnnualRevenue From Account’;
      accounts = database.query(query);
      }

      return null;
      }
      }

      Note: I have not implemented pagination for this page.

      • This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by  Kumar.
    • Shekhar Gadewar

      Member
      January 5, 2017 at 9:10 AM

      Many thanks Kumar!!

       

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