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
Integrating Your Web Applications in Salesforce1 with Force.com Canvas
Calling Quick Actions from the API
Try It Out: Create an Invoice Action
Tell Me More: Quick Actions and the REST API
Extending the User Interface with Lightning Pages
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Tell Me More: Quick Actions and the REST API

The REST API contains a number of resources and calls that you can use when working with actions.

Quick Actions

Use the Quick Actions resource to return a list of actions as well as custom fields and objects that appear in the feed. The resource uses a URI of the format services/data/v37.0/quickActions/.

You might have a preferred tool for working with Salesforce APIs. If you don’t have a preferred tool, Workbench is an easy way to get started. You can find information about Workbench at https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Workbench. You can find information about the REST API in the Force.com REST API Developer’s Guide.

Global Actions

To return global actions, use: services/data/v37.0/quickActions/

A call to this resource returns information about the global actions including our Shipify canvas custom action as shown in this snippet of the response.
Object Actions

To return a specific object’s actions, as well as global actions, use: services/data/v37.0/sobjects/object/quickActions/

The call /services/data/v37.0/sobjects/Invoice__c/quickActions returns information about global actions as well as the Invoice Create_Delivery action, as shown in this snippet of the response.
Specific Actions

To return a specific action, use: services/data/v37.0/sobjects/object/quickActions/Action_Name

The call /services/data/v37.0/sobjects/Invoice__c/ quickActions/Create_Delivery returns information about only the Create_Delivery action, as shown in this response.
Action Details

To return a specific action’s descriptive detail, use: services/data/v37.0/sobjects/object/quickActions/Action_Name/describe/

Action Default Values and Field Values

To return a specific action’s default values, including default field values, use: services/data/v37.0/sobjects/object/quickActions/Action_Name/defaultValues/

The call /services/data/v37.0/sobjects/Invoice__c/ quickActions/Create_Data/defaultValues returns information about defaults for the Invoice Create_Delivery action, as shown in this snippet of the response.
Action Default Values

To return the default values for an action, use: /services/data/v37.0/subjects/ object/quickActions/Action_Name/defaultValues/Parent_ID

Describe Layouts

Use the global describe layouts resource to get global layout information for objects, including action objects. The resource uses a URI of the format: services/data/v37.0/ sobjects/Global/describe/layouts/

A call to this resource returns layout information for the global actions (including our Shipify canvas custom action), as shown in this response.

Use the describe layouts resource to obtain a description of a layout for a specific object, including action objects. The resource uses a URI of the format: services/data/ v37.0/sobjects/object/describe/layouts/