SF1 sforce.one.createRecord and subscribing to publisher actions

Question

I am having a issue subscribing to publisher events such as publisher.showPanel and publisher.post within SF1 when I fire a sforce.one.createRecord modal.

gist of sample code: https://gist.github.com/mtetlow/80789a679efe8e18465e

I get no console logging whatsoever when the createRecord modal fires. Essentially I am looking to fire a refresh of client side data when a new record is added via my ui. Does anyone have any idea if the publisher. events fire from the sforce.one.createRecord modal?

To recreate: create VF page with sample code, check available in SF1 on VF page, create tab for VF page, add tab to Setup -> Mobile Navigation. Then navigate to /one/one.app and click on your tab from the left side / hamburger menu. If you click the "Create Account" anchor, I would expect console logging to occur.

Answer 1

As far as I'm aware the only time the publisher.post event is fired is when the Submit button is clicked within a Salesforce1 custom publisher action.

There is currently no way to subscribe to sforce.one methods as they don't fire the publisher events, nor do they offer the facility to provide a callback method.

An alternative is to use Visualforce Remote Objects, AJAX Toolkit or JavaScript Remoting. All of which allow you to define callback functions.

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Here are some examples (taken from the documentation linked above):

Visualforce Remote Objects

var ctDetails = { FirstName: 'Marc', LastName: 'Benioff' };
var ct = new RemoteObjectModel.Contact();
ct.create(ctDetails, function(err) {
    if(err) { 
        console.log(err);
        alert(err.message);
    }
    else {
        // this is the contact
        console.log(ct.log());     // Dump contact to log
        console.log(ct.get('Id')); // Id is set when create completes
    }
});

AJAX Toolkit

var account = new sforce.SObject("Account");
account.Name = "my new account";

sforce.connection.create([account], {onSuccess : success, onFailure : failed});

function success(result) {
    if (result[0].getBoolean("success")) {
        log("new account created with id " + result[0].id);
    } else {
        log("failed to create account " + result[0]);
    }
}

function failed(error) {
    log("An error has occurred " + error);
}

JavaScript Remoting

var accountName = document.getElementById('acctSearch').value;

Visualforce.remoting.Manager.invokeAction(
     '{!$RemoteAction.MyController.getAccount}', 
     accountName, 
     function(result, event){
          if (event.status) {
               document.getElementById('acctId').innerHTML = result.Id
               document.getElementById('acctName').innerHTML = result.Name;
          } else if (event.type === 'exception') {
               document.getElementById("responseErrors").innerHTML = 
               event.message + "<br/>\n<pre>" + event.where + "</pre>";
          } else {
               document.getElementById("responseErrors").innerHTML = event.message;
          }
     }
);