Hello friends, In this tutorial, we are going to learn Action Poller function in Visualforce Pages Salesforce. Action Poller acts as a timer in visualforce pages. It is used to make an Ajax request to the server at a particular interval of time that you specify. Each request can result in a full or partial page update.

What is Action Poller Function in Visualforce Pages Salesforce:

Action Poller acts as a timer in visualforce pages. It is used to make an Ajax request to the server at a particular interval of time that you specify. Each request can result in a full or partial page update.

Syntax for declaring Action Poller function in Visualforce Pages Salesforce:

<apex:actionPoller action="{!actionmethod}" reRender="targetpanel" interval="10" enabled = “true” />

The attribute of Action Polar function.

The Action Poller function has the following attributes:

interval: The attribute specifies the time interval between Ajax requests in second. The minimum value for this attribute must be 5 seconds or greater if you do not specify any value for this attribute then the default value will be 60 seconds.
action: The action method invoked by the periodic AJAX update request from the component.
enabled: A Boolean value that specifies whether the poller is active. If not specified, this value defaults to true.
reRender: Comma separated id’s of one or more components that are refreshed when a request completes.

Example of Action Poller function:

In this example, action calls the method Counter at every 5 seconds. The variable iCounter is incremented by 5. Open the Developer Console and Create an Apex class called actionPollarController.

public class actionPollarController {
public Integer iCounter{get;set;}
public actionPollarController(){
iCounter = 0;
}
 
public void Counter(){
iCounter = iCounter + 5;
}
}

Create a Visualforce Page and write the following code.

<apex:page controller="actionPollarController" tabStyle="Account">
<apex:form >
<apex:pageBlock id="myPageId">
<apex:pageBlockSection title="actionPoller Demo" collapsible="false" columns="1">
<apex:actionPoller action="{!Counter}" reRender="target" interval="5"/>
<apex:outputText value="{!iCounter}" label="Timer:" id="target"/>
</apex:pageBlockSection>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>
</apex:page>

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