Using Salesforce Features with Apex | Apex Developer Guide

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.

Approval Processing
An approval process automates how records are approved in Salesforce. An approval process specifies each step of approval, including from whom to request approval and what to do at each point of the process.

Authentication
Salesforce provides various ways to authenticate users. Build a combination of authentication methods to fit the needs of your org and your users’ use patterns.

Chatter Answers and Ideas
In Chatter Answers and Ideas, use zones to organize ideas and answers into groups. Each zone can have its own focus, with unique ideas and answers topics to match that focus.

Use Cases for the CommercePayments Namespace
Review walkthroughs, use cases, and reference material for the CommercePayments platform.

Connect in Apex
Use Connect in Apex to develop custom experiences in Salesforce. Connect in Apex provides programmatic access to B2B Commerce for Lightning, CMS managed content, Experience Cloud sites, topics, and more. Create Apex pages that display Chatter feeds, post feed items with mentions and topics, and update user and group photos. Create triggers that update Chatter feeds.

Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Write a trigger for ChatterMessage to automate the moderation of private messages in an org or Experience Cloud site. Use triggers to ensure that messages conform to your company’s messaging policies and don’t contain blocklisted words.

Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Write a trigger for FeedItem to automate the moderation of posts in an org or Experience Cloud site. Use triggers to ensure that posts conform to your company’s communication policies and don’t contain unwanted words or phrases.

Experience Cloud Sites
Experience Cloud sites are branded spaces for your employees, customers, and partners to connect. You can customize and create sites to meet your business needs, then transition seamlessly between them.

Email
You can use Apex to work with inbound and outbound email.

Flows
Flow Builder lets admins build applications, known as flows, that automate a business process by collecting data and doing something in your Salesforce org or an external system.

Metadata
Salesforce uses metadata types and components to represent org configuration and customization. Metadata is used for org settings that admins control, or configuration information applied by installed apps and packages.

Platform Cache
The Lightning Platform Cache layer provides faster performance and better reliability when caching Salesforce session and org data. Specify what to cache and for how long without using custom objects and settings or overloading a Visualforce view state. Platform Cache improves performance by distributing cache space so that some applications or operations don’t steal capacity from others.

Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Knowledge is a knowledge base where users can easily create and manage content, known as articles, and quickly find and view the articles they need.

Salesforce Files
Use Apex to customize the behavior of Salesforce Files.

Salesforce Connect
Apex code can access external object data via any Salesforce Connect adapter. Use the Apex Connector Framework to develop a custom adapter for Salesforce Connect. The custom adapter can retrieve data from external systems and synthesize data locally. Salesforce Connect represents that data in Salesforce external objects, enabling users and the Lightning Platform to seamlessly interact with data that’s stored outside the Salesforce org.

Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
The Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex gives you programmatic access to your report data as defined in the report builder.

Salesforce Sites
Salesforce Sites lets you build custom pages and Web applications by inheriting Lightning Platform capabilities including analytics, workflow and approvals, and programmable logic.

Support Classes
Support classes allow you to interact with records commonly used by support centers, such as business hours and cases.

Territory Management 2.0
With trigger support for the Territory2 and UserTerritory2Association standard objects, you can automate actions and processes related to changes in these territory management records.