Salesforce App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce App Administration
Developing for the Salesforce App
Welcome to Salesforce Platform Development
Designing Mobile-First User Interfaces
Extending the Salesforce App with Visualforce Pages
Try It Out: Create a Visualforce Page
Create a New Tab
Add the Tab to the Navigation Menu
Test the Visualforce Page
Tell Me More: Where Visualforce Pages Can Appear in the Salesforce App
Tell Me More: About the Code
Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Add the Tab to the Navigation Menu

In this step, we’ll add the tab as a navigation menu item. It will instantly become available to Salesforce app users that have access to it.
  1. From Setup, enter Navigation in the Quick Find box, then select Salesforce Navigation.
  2. Select Find Warehouses and click Add to move it over to the Selected list.
    Mobile navigation
  3. Move the Find Warehouses item to just below the Smart Search Items menu item.

    Menu items that you put below Smart Search Items appear in the Apps section of the Salesforce navigation menu.

    Note

  4. Click Save.

When your users log in, they’ll see the Find Warehouses menu item in the navigation menu. Now let’s test it out.