{"id":346,"date":"2014-02-18T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/?p=346"},"modified":"2025-06-20T05:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:06:56","slug":"editing-the-page-link-for-visualforce-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/2014\/02\/18\/editing-the-page-link-for-visualforce-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing the page link for the Visualforce Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may sometimes become necessary to edit the Visualforce page link of a Visualforce tab. When the user goes to <b>Setup<\/b> <b>-&gt;<\/b> <b>Create -&gt;<\/b> <b>Tabs<\/b> and edits a Visualforce tab, they are able to change only the label of the Visualforce custom tab. The content or the page is non-editable in the Salesforce UI. \u00a0You can see from the below that the highlighted content link is non-editable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edit1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-347 size-full\" title=\"Custom tab\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edit1.jpg\" alt=\"Custom tab\" width=\"568\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a>In this scenario, one thing that we can do is to delete this tab and create a new one with the desired content. But this can become difficult to handle if there are lots of profiles and apps associated with the Visualforce tab. The best alternative to do this task is by using the Force.com IDE.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Using the Force.com IDE, the user can change the content of the custom tab as well which was not possible through the Salesforce UI.\u00a0 A screenshot of the Force.com IDE is as shown below &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edit4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-357 size-full\" title=\"tab\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edit4.png\" alt=\"tab\" width=\"549\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you update the page node with your new page name then the link of tab will be automatically updated in Salesforce. You can see this from the below screenshot &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edit3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-349 size-full\" title=\"Custom tab\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/edit3.jpg\" alt=\"Custom tab\" width=\"549\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: Medium;\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\">Greytrix<\/a> as a Salesforce Product development partner offers a wide variety of integration products and services to the end users as well as to the Partners across the globe. We offers Consultation, Configuration, Training and support services in out-of-the-box functionality as well as customizations to incorporate custom business rules and functionalities that requires apex code incorporation into the Salesforce platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\">Greytrix<\/a> has some unique solutions for Cloud CRM such as Salesforce integration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-x3\/gumu-x3-salesforce-integration\">Sage Enterprise Management (Sage X3<\/a>), Sage Intacct, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-100-erp\/gumu-100-salesforce-integration\">Sage 100 <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-300-erp\/gumu-300-salesforce-integration\">Sage 300 (Sage Accpac)<\/a>. We also offer best-in-class Cloud CRM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/crm-development\/salesforce-com\">Salesforce customization and development services<\/a> along with services such as Salesforce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/professional-services\/data-migration-services\">Data Migration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/professional-services\/integrated-application-development\">Integrated App development<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/professional-services\/custom-development\">Custom App development<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/professional-services\/maintenance-support\">Technical Support<\/a> to business partners and end users.<\/p>\n<p>Greytrix GUMU&#x2122; integration for Sage ERP \u2013 Salesforce is a 5-star app listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/appexchange.salesforce.com\/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000000psM5EAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salesforce AppExchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:salesforce@greytrix.com\">salesforce@greytrix.com<\/a>. 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When the user goes to Setup -&gt; Create -&gt; Tabs and edits a Visualforce tab, they are able to change only the label of the Visualforce custom tab. The content or the page is non-editable in the Salesforce UI. \u00a0You\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/2014\/02\/18\/editing-the-page-link-for-visualforce-tab\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[570,485,527],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salesforce-srv","tag-salesforce-ui","tag-tab-content","tag-visualforce-tab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10968,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/10968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}