Home Page Component: Salesforce CRM Content Updates

<table id="contentUpdates" border="1" rules="none" width="100%" bgcolor="#ceecf5" frame="box">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th width="10%">Date</th>
            <th width="90%">Resource</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <!-- Removing lorem ipsum used for styling
            <th>2014-03-20</th>
            <td>069L0000000DC9fIAG &lt;&gt; downloaded</td> -->
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<!-- Execute logic to pull in and render recent content updates -->

<script src="/soap/ajax/29.0/connection.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Get the session ID from the "sid" cookie

var sidRegExp = /sid=([^;]+);/;
var sidMatches = sidRegExp.exec(document.cookie);
var sid = sidMatches[1];

// Set the session ID for the Ajax client

sforce.connection.sessionId = sid;

// Retrieve Content updated in the last 8 days
//var query = 'SELECT Id, Title, CreatedDate, LastModifiedDate FROM ContentDocument WHERE LastModifiedDate = LAST_N_DAYS:8 ORDER BY LastModifiedDate DESC, Title ASC ';

var query = 'SELECT Id, Title, LastModifiedDate FROM ContentDocument WHERE LastModifiedDate = LAST_N_DAYS:8 ORDER BY LastModifiedDate DESC, Title ASC ';
var results = sforce.connection.query(query);

// Handle the special case where there is only one result, by moving the record
// into an array. When there is more than one result the records are returned
// as an array, but for some reason Salesforce returns a single record as-is,
// instead of putting it inside a 1-element array (at least in API 29.0)

if (results.size == 1 && results.records.length == null)
    results.records = [results.records];

// Get a reference to the tbody element in which new content updates are going to be displayed

var table = document.getElementById("contentUpdates");
var tbody = table.getElementsByTagName("tbody")[0];

// Build the rows to present in the table, leveraging knowledge that
// the query results are ordered by LastModifiedDate.

var updateDate = null; // Used to determine whether a new row is needed

for(var i = 0; i < results.records.length; i++) {
    var doc = results.records[i];
    var docModifiedDate = doc.LastModifiedDate.substring(0, 10);

    // We need to create a new row for each new date we encounter.

    if(docModifiedDate != updateDate) {
        var tr = document.createElement("tr");
        tbody.appendChild(tr);

        var dateHeader = document.createElement("th");
        dateHeader.innerHTML = docModifiedDate;
        tr.appendChild(dateHeader);

        var updatesCell = document.createElement("td");
        tr.appendChild(updatesCell);
        updateDate = docModifiedDate;
    }

    // Create a link to the document, knowing that the URL should look
    // something like the following:
    // https://na15.salesforce.com/sfc/#version?selectedDocumentId=069i0000000sFDq

    var contentURL = "/sfc/#version?selectedDocumentId=" + doc.Id;

    var contentLink = document.createElement("a");
    contentLink.innerHTML = doc.Title;
    contentLink.setAttribute("href", contentURL);

    updatesCell.appendChild(contentLink)
    updatesCell.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" | "));
}
</script>