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Identify Salesforce User Experience Theme in Visualforce Page

We can use User.UITheme and User.UIThemeDisplayed in Visualforce Page to determine User Experience Theme.

User.UITheme : Returns the theme that is supposed to be used.
User.UIThemeDisplayed : Returns the theme that is actually being used.

User.UITheme and User.UIThemeDisplayed will return following values.

  • Theme1—Obsolete Salesforce theme
  • Theme2—Salesforce Classic 2005 user interface theme
  • Theme3—Salesforce Classic 2010 user interface theme
  • Theme4d—Modern “Lightning Experience” Salesforce theme
  • Theme4t—Salesforce mobile app theme
  • Theme4u—Lightning Console theme
  • PortalDefault—Salesforce Customer Portal theme
  • Webstore—Salesforce AppExchange theme

Sample Code:

<apex:page>
    <apex:pageBlock title="Theme">
        {!$User.UITheme}
        {!$User.UIThemeDisplayed}
    </apex:pageBlock>
</apex:page>

Visualforce Page Render As Advanced PDF

  • Advanced PDF renders Visualforce pages as PDF files with broader support for modern HTML standards, such as CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
  • To use Advanced PDF, set renderAs="advanced_pdf" in the apex:page tag of a Visualforce page with API version 40.0 or later.
  • Advanced PDF supports in both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
  • It is similar to the existing process for rendering a Visualforce page as a standard PDF file.

Example:

<apex:page readOnly="true"
           standardController="Account"    
           applyHtmlTag="false"     
           sidebar="false"     
           showHeader="false"     
           cache="true"     
           renderAs="advanced_pdf"
           docType="html-5.0">
    <head>    
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />    
        <style type="text/css">
            @page {
            size: A4 landscape;    
            border: 1px solid black;    
            padding-left: 5px;    
            padding-right: 5px;      
            }
            th {  
            font-weight: bold;
            text-align: center;
            background-color: #92d5f0;
            color: black;
            padding: 8px;
            }
            td {    
            font-size: 15px;
            text-align: left;
            padding: 8px;
            }
            table{
            border-collapse: collapse;
            }
            table, th, td {
            border: 1px solid black;
            }
        </style>    
    </head>    
    <center>    
        <h3>{!Account.Name}</h3>    
    </center>    
    <table width="100%">    
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>    
            <th>Phone</th>
            <th>Email</th> 
        </tr>    
        <apex:repeat value="{!Account.Contacts}" var="con">    
            <tr>                
                <td>{!con.Name}</td>    
                <td>{!con.Phone}</td>
                <td>{!con.Email}</td>    
            </tr>    
        </apex:repeat>    
    </table>    
</apex:page>

Output:

Close Lightning Quick Action Modal

Lightning Component:

<aura:component implements="force:appHostable,flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes,force:lightningQuickAction">
    <lightning:button variant="brand" type="button" label="Cancel" title="Cancel" onclick="{!c.handleCancel}"/> 
</aura:component>

Lightning JS Controller:

({
    handleCancel : function(component, event, helper) {
        //to close the quick action modal 
        $A.get("e.force:closeQuickAction").fire();
    },
})