Salesforce1 Mobile App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce1 Administration
Developing for Salesforce1
Welcome to Salesforce App Cloud Development
Designing Mobile-First User Interfaces
Extending Salesforce1 with Visualforce Pages
Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions
Custom Actions Scenario
Try It Out: Create a Visualforce Custom Action
Tell Me More: About the Code
Integrating Your Web Applications in Salesforce1 with Force.com Canvas
Calling Quick Actions from the API
Extending the User Interface with Lightning Pages
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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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 action bar. That way, if the technicians are out at a customer site and they want to order a part, they can quickly navigate to the page.

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