Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Chatter in Apex
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Communities
Email
Metadata
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Files
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Salesforce Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Flows
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Language Reference
Appendices
Glossary
PDF

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Actions

Create quick actions, and add them to your Salesforce Classic home page, to the Chatter tab, to Chatter groups, and to record detail pages. Choose from standard quick actions, such as create and update actions, or create custom actions based on your company’s needs.
  • Create actions let users create records—like New Contact, New Opportunity, and New Lead.
  • Custom actions invoke Lightning components, flows, Visualforce pages, or canvas apps with functionality that you define.Use a Visualforce page, Lightning component, or a canvas app to create global custom actions for tasks that don’t require users to use records that have a relationship to a specific object. Object-specific custom actions invoke Lightning components, flows, Visualforce pages, or canvas apps that let users interact with or create records that have a relationship to an object record.
For create, Log a Call, and custom actions, you can create either object-specific actions or global actions. Update actions must be object-specific.

For more information on actions, see the online help.