Create Advanced Visualforce Dashboard Components

Create a Visualforce page with a custom list controller, then use it as a dashboard component.

note: Visualforce pages as dashboard components are only available in Salesforce Classic. In Lightning Experience, you can create a custom tab and use that as a dashboard for your custom lightning components.

To be included in a dashboard, a Visualforce page must use a custom controller, use a standard or custom list controller, or not have a controller. You can’t add a Visualforce page with a standard controller to a dashboard. Only Visualforce pages that meet these requirements appear as options in the Data Sources tab.

Visualforce dashboard components aren’t supported when third-party cookies are disabled. See Visualforce Limitations in Salesforce Classic When Third-Party Cookies are Blocked.

This Visualforce dashboard component displays all of the open cases associated with a contact named “Barbara Levy.”

1. Create a custom list controller called retrieveCase.

   <!-- otherprops: apex_code set_clipboard -->

   public class retrieveCase {
   
       public String getContactName() {
           return 'Barbara Levy';
       }
   
       public List<Case> getCases() {
           return [SELECT status, subject FROM Case
                   WHERE Contact.name = 'Barbara Levy' AND status != 'Closed' limit 5];
       }
   }
   

2. Create a Visualforce page that uses the retrieveCase custom controller.

   <!-- otherprops: apex_page set_clipboard -->

   <apex:page controller="retrieveCase" tabStyle="Case">
       <apex:pageBlock>
           {!contactName}'s Cases
           <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!cases}" var="c">
               <apex:column value="{!c.status}"/>
               <apex:column value="{!c.subject}"/>
           </apex:pageBlockTable>
       </apex:pageBlock>
   </apex:page>
   

3. To add the Visualforce page to a dashboard, see Add a Dashboard Component in Salesforce Classic.

See Also

• Create Visualforce Dashboard Components
• Standard List Controllers
• Building a Custom List Controller