Salesforce1 Mobile App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce1 Administration
Configuring Salesforce1
Customizing the Salesforce1 Navigation Menu
About the Salesforce1 Navigation Menu
Try It Out: Configuring the Salesforce1 Navigation Menu
Test Out the Salesforce1 Navigation Menu
How the Salesforce1 Navigation Menu Works
Customizing How Your Data Shows Up in Salesforce1
Using Actions in Salesforce1
Guidelines and Best Practices for Administrators
Developing for Salesforce1
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About the Salesforce1 Navigation Menu

Anywhere your users see the Salesforce1 App Nav icon in Salesforce1, they can tap it to access the menu. As an administrator, you can customize what the menu contains.

What You Can Include

Depending on how your organization is configured and what they have access to, your users could see multiple items in their navigation menu.

Menu Item Description
Approval Requests Displays a list of the user’s pending approvals. Users can tap an approval item and approve or reject it from within Salesforce1. Available in the Salesforce1 downloadable app for iOS and the Salesforce1 mobile browser app.
Canvas apps Appears for organizations that have enabled a canvas app to appear in the Salesforce1 navigation menu.
Dashboards Availability depends on edition and user permissions. If you don’t include this item in the menu, a Dashboards item is automatically added to the set of Smart Search Items.
Events Lists events that are owned by the user, that the user created for him- or herself, and that the user or a user’s groups are invited to.
Feed Appears for organizations that have Chatter enabled.
Lightning component tabs Only custom Lightning components that have a Lightning component tab associated with them can appear in the Salesforce1 navigation menu.
Lightning Pages Custom Salesforce1 app pages.
Groups Appears for organizations that have Chatter enabled. If you don’t include this item in the menu, a Groups item is automatically added to the set of Smart Search Items.
Paused Flow Interviews Displays a list of flow interviews that the user paused. An interview is a running instance of a flow. Users can tap an interview and resume or delete it from within Salesforce1. Available in the Salesforce1 mobile browser app only.
People Appears for organizations that have Chatter enabled. If you don’t include this item in the menu, a People item is automatically added to the set of Smart Search Items.
Smart Search Items Adds Salesforce objects to the Recent section in the menu. This item also adds a set of recently-searched objects to the Recent section and adds the More item so users can access all the objects they have permission to use and that are supported in Salesforce1. If you don’t include this item in the navigation menu, users can’t access any objects in Salesforce1.

If your users don’t yet have a history of recent objects, they initially see a set of default objects in the Recent section. It can take up to 15 days for the objects that users work with regularly in both Salesforce1 and the full Salesforce site to appear in the Recent section. To make objects appear under Recent sooner, users can pin them from the search results screen in the full site.

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Tasks Lists of a user’s open and closed tasks and tasks that have been delegated.
Today An app that helps users plan for and manage their day by integrating mobile calendar events with associated Salesforce tasks, accounts, and contacts. The app also allows users to instantly join conference calls, quickly log notes about events, and more. Available in the Salesforce1 downloadable apps only.
Visualforce page tabs Only Visualforce pages with the Available for Salesforce mobile apps checkbox selected will display in Salesforce1.

We won’t get into Visualforce pages in these exercises, but to learn more about them and how they work in Salesforce1, see Extending Salesforce1 with Visualforce Pages.