Standard List Controller in Visualforce Page

Hi my friends, In this tutorial, we are going to understand the use of the Standard List Controller in Visualforce Page Salesforce. Standard list controller makes it easy to display a list of records for a specific object. We don’t need to write any line of code for displaying a list of data.

Standard List Controller in Visualforce Page:

Displaying a list of record in tabular format is common requirements for any web application. Standard list controller makes it easy to display a list of records for a specific object. We don’t need to write any line of code for displaying a list of data. For using a Standard List Controller the following attributes need to add at

<apex:page>.

 standardController="objectname"
 recordSetVar="variable-name"

Example of setting Standard List Controller:

<apex:page standardController="Contact" recordSetVar="contacts"></apex:page>

where recordSetVar sets the name of the variable to be which holds the collection of records for an object.

To display records in a table I am using <apex:pageBlockTable> which is an iteration component that generates a table for the data.
Syntax for declaring <apex:pageBlockTable> for display list data:

<apex:pageBlockTable value="{!contacts}" var="contact></apex:pageBlockTable>

Where, value=”{!contacts}” holds the variable name that is loaded by the standard list controller by using recordSetVar attribute and var holds the each item of the collection.
<apex:column> uses the field to create column headers, by looking up the label for each field.

for example:

<apex:column value="{!contact.Name}"/>

<apex:column> component must be inside the <apex:pageBlockTable> component.

A complete example of using Standard list controller:

<apex:page standardController="Contact" recordSetVar="contacts">
<apex:pageBlock title="Account List">
<apex:pageBlockTable value="{! contacts}" var="contact">
<apex:column value="{!contact.Name}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.Email}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.Phone}"/>
</apex:pageBlockTable>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:page>

Output:

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Standard List Controller in Visualforce Page