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When clicking on a link to a C&P object in salesforce, say something like this:
https://na5.salesforce.com/a0t70000000XkFZ
we're quickly redirected to a page (salesforce feature for visualforce pages) with a url like this:
https://cnp.na5.visual.force.com/ape...0t70000000XkFZ
which then redirects a second time to the page finally displaying the data:
https://cnp.na5.visual.force.com/ape...0t70000000XkFZ
The problem is that the browser back button behaves poorly afterward. If you click back once, you're taken to the intermediate redirect page which then redirects you right where you started. This often happens quickly, and in any case is very confusing. You can try clicking back twice quickly, which doesn't work reliably. Or, you can pull up the whole history list and go back two pages.
Viewing C&P objects really breaks of the flow of the history in salesforce, making them unpleasant to work with, especially since it seems to happen for every c&p object. I've never seen other salesforce objects behave like this. Please either handle the intermediate redirect better, or get rid of it altogether. Here's a w3 comment on this problem:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback
Although, it looks like you're doing it with some javascript which seems even worse. You can effectively do redirects in visual force, so maybe that's a solution to consider if you can't get by without these redirects.
Another question, do you actually need visualforce to display your objects, the pages all look like pretty standard layout. And, do you really need it for all objects. It'd be nice if we could easily edit the layout of c&p pages (with the standard salesforce page layout tool) to do things like hide fields we don't use and add fields we'd like to see (e.g. object created time). or, since we've added a lookup field in the opportunity referencing the c&p recurring object, we'd like to add an opportunity related list to the recurring object detail page.
https://na5.salesforce.com/a0t70000000XkFZ
we're quickly redirected to a page (salesforce feature for visualforce pages) with a url like this:
https://cnp.na5.visual.force.com/ape...0t70000000XkFZ
which then redirects a second time to the page finally displaying the data:
https://cnp.na5.visual.force.com/ape...0t70000000XkFZ
The problem is that the browser back button behaves poorly afterward. If you click back once, you're taken to the intermediate redirect page which then redirects you right where you started. This often happens quickly, and in any case is very confusing. You can try clicking back twice quickly, which doesn't work reliably. Or, you can pull up the whole history list and go back two pages.
Viewing C&P objects really breaks of the flow of the history in salesforce, making them unpleasant to work with, especially since it seems to happen for every c&p object. I've never seen other salesforce objects behave like this. Please either handle the intermediate redirect better, or get rid of it altogether. Here's a w3 comment on this problem:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback
Although, it looks like you're doing it with some javascript which seems even worse. You can effectively do redirects in visual force, so maybe that's a solution to consider if you can't get by without these redirects.
Another question, do you actually need visualforce to display your objects, the pages all look like pretty standard layout. And, do you really need it for all objects. It'd be nice if we could easily edit the layout of c&p pages (with the standard salesforce page layout tool) to do things like hide fields we don't use and add fields we'd like to see (e.g. object created time). or, since we've added a lookup field in the opportunity referencing the c&p recurring object, we'd like to add an opportunity related list to the recurring object detail page.
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