Invocable Actions

Represents a standard or custom invocable action.

Use actions to add more functionality to your applications. Choose from standard actions, such as posting to Chatter or sending email, or create actions based on your company’s needs.

This resource is available in REST API version 32.0 and later.

Syntax

URI

Get a list of custom actions:

/vXX.X/actions

Formats

JSON, XML

HTTP Methods

GET, POST

Authentication

Authorization: Bearer token

Parameters

None

Example

Using GET to retrieve a list of general action types for the current organization:

1/services/data/v32.0/actions

JSON Response body

1{
2  "standard" : "/services/data/v32.0/actions/standard",
3  "custom" : "/services/data/v32.0/actions/custom"
4}

Example

Using POST to send a simple email message:

1/services/data/v32.0/actions/standard/emailSimple

JSON Request body

1{
2  "inputs" : [ {
3    "emailAddresses" : "Fred@Acme.com",
4    "emailSubject" : "Note",
5    "emailBody" : "Message of the day.",
6    "senderAddress" : "Bill@TheCloud.org"
7  } ]
8}

JSON Response body

1{
2  "actionName" : "emailSimple",
3  "errors" : null,
4  "isSuccess" : true,
5  "outputValues" : null
6}

Standard actions return their name in actionName. The value of actionName varies for custom actions.

Action	`actionName` value
Flow	The flow name
Apex	The class’s invocable method name
Quick action	`<object name>.<quick action name>` For a global quick action, there’s no `<object name>.` prefix.
Email alert	`<object name>.<email alert name>`

For more information about actions, see the Force.com Actions Developer Guide.

Force.com REST API Developer Guide

Invocable Actions

Syntax