Lightning Components Developer Guide

What is the Lightning Component Framework?
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Use Lightning Components in Lightning Experience and Salesforce1
Configure Components for Custom Tabs
Add Lightning Components as Custom Tabs in Lightning Experience
Add Lightning Components as Custom Tabs in Salesforce1
Lightning Component Actions
Override Standard Actions with Lightning Components
Standard Actions and Overrides Basics
Override a Standard Action with a Lightning Component
Creating a Lightning Component for Use as an Action Override
Packaging Action Overrides
Get Your Lightning Components Ready to Use on Lightning Pages
Use Lightning Components in Community Builder
Add Components to Apps
Integrate Your Custom Apps into the Chatter Publisher (Pilot)
Use Lightning Components in Visualforce Pages
Add Lightning Components to Any App with Lightning Out (Beta)
Communicating with Events
Creating Apps
Debugging
Fixing Performance Warnings
Reference
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Override a Standard Action with a Lightning Component

You can override a standard action in both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience. While the destination is the same, the navigation paths are different.

You need at least one Lightning component in your org that implements the lightning:actionOverride interface. You can use a custom component of your own, or a component from a managed package.

Go to the object management settings for the object with the action you plan to override.
  1. Select Buttons, Links, and Actions.
  2. Select Edit for the action you want to override.
  3. For Override With, select Lightning Component Bundle.
  4. From the drop-down menu, select the name of the Lightning component to use as the action override.
  5. Select Save.

Users won’t see changes to action overrides until they reload Lightning Experience or Salesforce1.

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