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User Admin 7User Admin 7 

Account News Feed App Unable to add VF Page

Hi,

I need some help in adding a VF page to my account page layout. I have installed the Account News Feed App (contains only 1 VF page) in my Sandbox Instance, however, I could not find the VF page section on the Edit Account page layout page.
Some old posts mentioned that we may need a standard controller in the code, and I found the following from the included VF page (I don't know much about VF coding....):
<apex:page standardController="account">
What could be the issue?

Thank you,
Best Answer chosen by User Admin 7
KaranrajKaranraj
I got your problem. Are you checking in the field section of the page layout? You have to check under the Visualforce page section of your Pagelayout and the VF page name is 'Relevant Account News from Google News'. Check the below screenshot,

User-added image

Hope this resolves your problem.

Thanks,
http://karanrajs.com

 

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KaranrajKaranraj
Cuurently you can't display the VF page in the edit page layout. Your visualforce page will be disaply only in the view page.
There is an idea in the IdeaExchage site which is already in the product team review, vote for it - https://success.salesforce.com/ideaview?id=08730000000Br8CAAS
RaggyRaoRaggyRao

 

This is specifically for the "Account News Feed App"  

- After installing the "Account News Feed App" from the AppExchange -
- The instructions on the App - ask us to add a VF field on the Account Object.
_ So, we go to Setup | Account | Edit Layouts | and find that there are no VF fields readily available for us to drag and drop into the Page layout.

Are we missing something here.... because, I've had another User try installing the App "Account News Feed' - and they get the VisualForce field in the Account PageLayout, which they just drag and drop and the field starts to work... however in my case - I do not have the field available for drag and drop in the first place. 

Any ideas as to what needs to be done will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!
KaranrajKaranraj
I got your problem. Are you checking in the field section of the page layout? You have to check under the Visualforce page section of your Pagelayout and the VF page name is 'Relevant Account News from Google News'. Check the below screenshot,

User-added image

Hope this resolves your problem.

Thanks,
http://karanrajs.com

 
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User Admin 7User Admin 7
Thanks for reply, but the issue I have is that I cannot find the VF page section...
User Admin 7User Admin 7
The problem has been fixed somehow...Thanks for all your help!
SalesforceMickySalesforceMicky
For anybody interested in an alternative solution, you might try using the following code snippet in your VF page, rather than installing an app and embedding: 
<apex:iframe height="100px" src="https://www.google.com/uds/modules/elements/newsshow/iframe.html?q={!account.name}&amp;#38;rsz=large&amp;#38;format=100x90" width="100%" />

Good luck!
Rick NaniaRick Nania
Hello Mike - We are having issues with the Account News Feed app mentioned above.

I just saw your comment from Dec 2015 and created a new VF page with the code you provided above. For some reason,  I can't find the New VF page on the Account Page Layout. We enabled the VF page to a few profiles so it should work.

Help....Thanks
 
SalesforceMickySalesforceMicky
Hi Rick,

Unfortunately Google no longer support the above suggestion. We began the process of migrating our client onto the BING API here:
https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search

Unfortunately, this is now also being deprecated and we are considering migrating once again, to Azure, however this is a paid for service:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/search/

The easiest route through this is to use the Account Insights standard Salesforce feature, however, this is only available through Lightning Experience.

Best of luck!
Rick NaniaRick Nania
Thanks  Micky