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Rendering a Visualforce Page in PDF Format

You can render any page as a PDF by adding the renderAs attribute to the component, and specifying pdf as the rendering service.

For example:

<apex:page renderas="pdf">
</apex:page>

Note: Visualforce pages rendered as PDFs will either display in the browser or download as a PDF file, depending on your browser settings.

Confirm Dialog box in Visualforce page

Visualforce Page:

<apex:page>
    <apex:form>
        <apex:pageblock>
            <apex:pageblocksection title="Confirm dialog box Demo" collapsible="false">
                 <apex:commandbutton value="Click to Confirm" onclick="return confirm('Do you want to submit');"></apex:commandbutton>
            </apex:pageblocksection>
        </apex:pageblock>
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>

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Converting DateTime to format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ in Salesforce

System.debug(DateTime.now().format(‘yyyy-MM-dd\’T\’hh:mm:ss\’z\”));

It can be used in SOQL query. SOSL query returns the datetime in format(YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ) so for comparison we need to convert it into above format.

Calculate Age from Date of Birth using Apex in Salesforce

Apex Class:

public class CalculateAge
{  
    public Integer age {get; set;}    
    public Date dt {get; set;}
    
    public void FindAge()
    {
        Integer days = dt.daysBetween(Date.Today());
        age = Integer.valueOf(days/365);
    }
}

Visualforce Page:

<apex:page doctype="html-5.0" controller="CalculateAge">
    <apex:form>
        <apex:pageblock title="Calculate Age From Date of Birth">
            <apex:pageblocksection>
                <apex:pageblocksectionitem>Date of Birth:
                    <apex:inputtext onfocus="DatePicker.pickDate(true, this , false);" value="{!dt}"></apex:inputtext></apex:pageblocksectionitem>
                    <apex:commandbutton value="Get Age" action="{!FindAge}"></apex:commandbutton>
                    <apex:pageblocksectionitem>Age:           
                    <apex:outputtext value="{!age}"></apex:outputtext>
                </apex:pageblocksectionitem>           
            </apex:pageblocksection>
        </apex:pageblock>
    </apex:form>   
</apex:page>

Output:

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