Category: controller

Let me discuss about another use case where it is required to pass information from one VisualForce page to another VisualForce page while both the VisualForce pages are sharing the same controller. I know this is a very basic example, but I would like to include this use case as part of my previous post – HOW TO PASS PARAMETERS TO VISUALFORCE PAGES AND BETWEEN PAGES. Special thanks to Joseph McNulty for pointing this to me.Check out my youtube channel for more Salesforce videos -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3xFLBRl5JwqqTXbCd5p4YQAll about Salesforce Release Spring 21 here.To start with let us first create the common controller – SingleControllerHere is the first VisualForce Page – FirstPage.Here is the second VisualForce Page – SecondPage.As you can see from FirstPage, I am setting the name to the controller variable – name and then clicking on the commandButton,  goToSecondPage() method from controller is getting called. This goToSecondPage() method is returning a PageReference to the SecondPage. The point to notice here is that inside the method goToSecondPage(), I am making the setRedirect(false). I will explain what will happen if I set it to true later in this post. So what is happening after clicking on the button is that a SecondPage is getting displayed with Welcome message. But another interesting thing to notice here is that URL is not getting changed i.e. URL is still pointing to /apex/FirstPage though the content...