About Lightning Page Tabs

Before you include a Lightning Page App Page in the Salesforce1 navigation menu, you must create a custom tab for it.

Lightning Page tabs aren’t available in the full Salesforce site and don’t work like other custom tabs in Salesforce. In Salesforce Classic, they don’t show up on the All Tabs page when you click the plus icon () that appears to the right of your current tabs. Nor do Lightning Page tabs show up in the Available Tabs list when you customize the tabs for your apps. And Lightning Page tabs aren’t available in Lightning Experience either.

Lightning Page tabs only facilitate inclusion of the Lightning Page in the Salesforce1 navigation menu.

You can define a Lightning Page tab in XML and deploy it like you would any other custom tab, but we’re going to do it in the full Salesforce site to illustrate the Lightning Page tab’s unique qualities.