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alimillsalimills 

sfcontrol in custom tab

Hello,

After looking at the screenshot for the CalendarBridge extension at https://www.salesforce.com/us/partners/solution-detail.jsp?id=a00300000001J62AAE and https://www.salesforce.com/image.jsp?src=/web-common/assets/showcase/screenshots/canyonbridge_ss.gif it appears as if it's possible to embedded a sfcontrol within a custom tab.  Does anyone know if this is true?  If not, how did Canyon Bridge achieve this view?  If so, how do you do it?  Ofcourse, it's entirely possible that the screenshot could have been taken after clicking on a Web Integration Link, but I thought that it wasn't possible to include WILs under custom tabs.  I know that I've tried to do so without any luck...

Ideally, I want to have my own custom tab that - when clicked - presents only my own sfcontrol in the layout section of the page.  I'd really appreciate any insight on how to make this happen.

BTW - any idea on how I can eliminate the HTTPs popup warning window when clicking on a WIL?  I get the warning window when I launch my WIL that has an uploaded file embedded within it.

Thanks,

 

Ali

zakzak
Judging by the umbrella logo at the top of the screen shot, I'd say they're using the new Web Tab feature in the upcoming summer 04 release.

Cheers
Simon
DevAngelDevAngel

Hi alimills,

Canyon Bridge participates in our EAP (early access program) and as such is displaying upcoming release functionality.  What you are seeing is a web tab.  These work like a web integration link (soon to be referred to as web link).  The difference is that there is no specific context in a web tab as in a web integration link.  In otherwords, you typically will place a web integration link on a detail page and pass specific record information from that detail to the target of the web integration link.  In a web tab there is no context.

Sounds like this will suit your needs. 

As to the https warning, the only way to keep that from showing is to

1. Standardize on firefox browser (Gives you the option to not be warned every time this occurs).

2. Use ssl on your web integration link or the url for the embedded object.
alimillsalimills

Thanks Zak and DevAngel!

It sounds like the web tab is *exactly* what I want.  Thanks for the info.

 

Ali
alimillsalimills

DevAngel,

I got the HTTPS warning while working with embedded Flash content and viewing the content through IE6.  I discovered what was causing the problem.

When the Flash IDE generates Object and Embed tags for you to copy and paiste into HTML, it includes the codebase attribute as follows:

codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"

Well IE6 loads the HTML page, it tries to be smart about things.  It goes out on it's own to retrieve the latest most up-to-date plugin for the element associated with the codebase - Flash in our case.  For Salesforce.com, this causes a problem because Salesforce is hosted under HTTPS and doesn't like IE heading out into an unprotected world without permission.  Macromedia has been around long enough to have experienced this issue before, and have addressed it.  They host recent plugin information at a second secure SSL URL.  Getting rid of the HTTPS warning you get when embedding Flash content on Salesforce.com is simple.  You merely change the codebase URL from HTTP to HTTPS.  For example, the following codebase is works with Salesforce.com:

codebase="https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"

This issue/reality is discussed in further detail at http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/https_error.htm.

 

Ali