Visualforce Area Home Page Components

Use Visualforce Area home page components to add dynamic content to your home page. For example, you can present content from partner apps, display charts with the Reports and Dashboards REST API, or add a canvas app to the home page.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic

Available in: All Editions

The Visualforce page that you choose for the component can use a standard or custom controller. You can include JavaScript in your Visualforce page, but because the component is rendered in an iframe on the home page layout, the JavaScript can’t interact with the page that contains the component.

Note Due to third-party cookie restrictions in modern web browsers, Visualforce Area home page components don't render properly in Salesforce Classic when third-party cookies are disabled. See Visualforce Limitations in Salesforce Classic When Third-Party Cookies are Blocked.

Sample Usage

If your Visualforce Area home page component displays in the sidebar, you can dynamically get the record ID and top-level URL of the page that the component is being displayed on by using the $CurrentPage global variable in your Visualforce markup.

Using $CurrentPage, you can access the query string parameters for the page by specifying the parameters attribute, after which you can access each individual parameter:

$CurrentPage.parameters.parameter_name

The parameters for record ID and top-level page URL are, respectively, id and sfdcIFrameOrigin. For more information, see Getting Query String Parameters in the Visualforce Developer Guide.