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
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 Salesforce 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 the Salesforce App. 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 the Salesforce app action bar.
  • Canvas—specifies a canvas app that’s called from the Chatter publisher or the Salesforce app action bar.
Custom actions aren’t specific to mobile users, and appear in both the Salesforce app and in the full Salesforce site. In the Salesforce mobile app, custom actions appear in the action bar. In the full Salesforce site, custom actions appear in the Chatter publisher.