Force.com Apex Code Developer's Guide

Getting Started
Writing Apex
Ways to Invoke Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Approval Processing
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Chatter in Apex
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Communities
Email
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Lightning Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Force.com Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Visual Workflow
Integration and Apex Utilities
Finishing Touches
Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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Actions

Create actions and add them to the Chatter publisher on the home page, on the Chatter tab, in Chatter groups, and on record detail pages. In Salesforce Classic, actions appear in the Chatter publisher. In Lightning Experience, actions appear in different areas of the user interface, depending on the action’s type. In Salesforce1, actions appear in the action bar, its associated action menu, and as list-item actions.
  • Create actions let users create records. They’re different from the Quick Create and Create New features on the Salesforce home page, because create actions respect validation rules and field requiredness, and you can choose each action’s fields.
  • Custom actions are Visualforce pages or canvas apps with functionality that you define. For example, you can create a custom action so that users can write comments that are longer than 5,000 characters, or create one that integrates a video-conferencing application so that support agents can communicate visually with customers.
For create, log-a-call, and custom actions, you can create either object-specific actions or global actions. Update actions must be object-specific.

For more information on actions, see the online help.