Assigning Quick Actions to A Lightning Page

We learned all about quick actions in the Using Actions in Salesforce1 chapter, where we created and configured an action using point-and-click tools. Actions you want to use for your Lightning Pages must first be created and configured in the full Salesforce site, but unlike objects, where you add the action to a page layout declaratively, actions on Lightning Pages must be specified in the XML.

Only global quick actions are supported for Lightning Pages.

When a user accesses actions from the Lightning Page in Salesforce1, only the actions that you specify for the Lightning Page are displayed. If you don’t specify any actions, the action bar won’t appear when users access the page.

In this exercise, we’ll be adding a pre-configured global action to the Lightning Page. This action lets our drivers schedule a delivery while on the road.