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I am interested in adding "custom button functionality" to some managed Visualforce pages, where I cannot touch the actual page itself.

My first thought is to use the Force.com menu, but it seems like it's not possible to control people there (make it read-only to users so they're not touching/ adding/ etc).

The Sidebar Components "on all pages" option is turned on, also as a possibility.

In either scenario, I am hoping (no investigation yet) that I can access the current SF ID being viewed if any to include on the URL of a custom link - IF I were to try and use that to "execute" code similar to a custom button that would normally exist on the LAYOUT ITSELF.

MORE IDEALLY would be that the links shown (or buttons?!) would be object (or layout) specific - only show buttons/links relevant to the page being shown. This is secondary to being to do it at ALL.

I want to add "buttons" (or links doing the same thing) to managed layouts where I cannot edit the layout

See screenshot. UPDATE: Just discovered the Sidebar Components are not visible on the VF pages, so all I have to work with is Force.com popout, which is editable (or invisible) by everyone.

Any thoughts on this? Any AppExchange items I'm not finding?

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UPDATE 1:   We are looking at using something like WalkMe to get around this. WalkMe is able to read from the Source on the displayed page, and render anything you want in a popup onscreen. We have a Proof Of Concept where it reads from an "SFID" custom variable, and creates a URL using that ID in the URL. This would be fine, too. Just hate the idea of using an entire solution like WalkMe for JUST a popup on a few pages.

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  • Could you wrap that managed VF page inside one you own? If so, you could potentially do it from the parent page.
    – Sebastian Kessel
    Jan 24, 2017 at 18:47
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    Holy sheep dip, batman. I have no clue.... but damn, it's worth a try...
    – AMM
    Jan 24, 2017 at 18:52
  • Presumably I'd think you could create a quick action for those pages that will either pop-up a lightning component or execute any JS you want to execute.
    – crmprogdev
    Jan 24, 2017 at 19:05
  • Lightning is not enabled (and won't be). As for JS... I want it to be selective (user clicks to make it happen). :-/ Are you implying LINKS on either popout to run the JS. Right now I'm playing with the VF wrapper idea. Makes me of course wish I'd done more than 15 minutes of VF before now......
    – AMM
    Jan 24, 2017 at 19:08
  • I'm done trying to make either apex:include or apex:iframe work as a wraparound. (sigh) INCLUDE says Method is not visible, and IFRAME can work, but yields the entire page in the iframe including the SF header and Component toolbar. I don't even know if I can click a button from the main iFrame I write into the iFrame that includes the page I need.
    – AMM
    Jan 24, 2017 at 20:43

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Did you try this <apex:include>:

<!-- Page: -->
<apex:page id="thePage">
    <apex:outputText value="(page) This is the page."/><br/>
    <apex:include pageName="Namespace.ManagedPageName"/>
</apex:page>

<!-- Page: include -->
<apex:page id="theIncludedPage">
    <apex:outputText value="(include) This is text from another page."/>
</apex:page>
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  • I was trying apex:iframe actually (but I'm actually having trouble remembering how to properly reference a VF page akin to apex:iframe src = "{!page}" ... apparently my memory AND my google search are failing me. Will try your sample code - thanks.
    – AMM
    Jan 24, 2017 at 19:14
  • So just using the first half of the example, I'm getting ... Error: Method is not visible: [rstk.ControllerExtnSalesOrder].doBeforePageLoad() ... (sigh)
    – AMM
    Jan 24, 2017 at 19:22
  • Since the VF page is rstk__SalesOrder ... and the URL to a given SOrder record is: rstk.cs26.visual.force.com/apex/… ... I've tried pageName as "rstk.SalesOrder" (yields the above error) and "rstk__SalesOrder" (yields Unknown Page).
    – AMM
    Jan 24, 2017 at 20:08
  • longwinded way allows an iFrame insert (spelling out the entire URL and adding the "id" variable from the URL that loaded the page). Now to test if I can properly affect the page that has been "iFramed" in (or possibly move to "include" instead).
    – AMM
    Jan 24, 2017 at 20:24
  • You will not be able to cal any packaged application method. You can only include the page and hack it with javascript. @AMM
    – Ashwani
    Jan 24, 2017 at 21:07

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