Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions

We learned about standard actions that can be configured with point-and-click tools in Using Actions in Salesforce1. In this chapter we’ll look at custom actions, which are actions that you define. There are two types of custom actions:

• Visualforce—specifies a Visualforce page that’s called from the Chatter publisher or Salesforce1 action bar.
• Canvas—specifies a canvas app that’s called from the Chatter publisher or Salesforce1 action bar. For more information about canvas custom actions, see Extending Salesforce1 with Canvas Custom Actions.

Custom actions aren’t specific to mobile users, and appear in both the Salesforce1 app and in the full Salesforce site. In the Salesforce1 mobile app, custom actions appear in the action bar. In the full Salesforce site, custom actions appear in the Chatter publisher.