Custom Actions Scenario

In this chapter, we’ll further extend the Acme Wireless organization and give mobile technicians a way to quickly create an order. We’ll create a Visualforce page and make it available as a custom action from the publisher. That way, if the technician is out at a customer site and they want to order a part, they can quickly navigate to the page.

The custom action will let the technician enter the part name and a radius, and the Visualforce page will search all warehouses within the given radius for that part. Once a warehouse is located, the technician simply enters the quantity and clicks a button to create the order. This is all done within the context of the customer account.