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
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions

Actions appear in the action bar and action menu in the Salesforce1 mobile app, and are a quick way for mobile users to access commonly used tasks or functionality.
We learned about standard actions that can be configured with point-and-click tools in Using Actions in Salesforce1. In this chapter we’ll look at custom actions, which are actions that you define. There are two types of custom actions:
  • Visualforce—specifies a Visualforce page that’s called from the Chatter publisher or Salesforce1 action bar.
  • Canvas—specifies a canvas app that’s called from the Chatter publisher or Salesforce1 action bar.
Custom actions aren’t specific to mobile users, and appear in both the Salesforce1 app and in the full Salesforce site. In the Salesforce1 mobile app, custom actions appear in the action bar. In the full Salesforce site, custom actions appear in the Chatter publisher.