Canvas Developer Guide

Getting Started
Using Canvas
Canvas SDK
Canvas Apps and Visualforce Pages
Lightning Component Code Examples
Canvas Apps in a Page Layout or a Mobile Card
Canvas Apps in the Publisher
Set Canvas App Location and Create the Action
Create the Action Manually
Canvas SDK Publisher Events
Publisher Context Considerations
Publisher Canvas App Access Considerations
Canvas Apps in the Chatter Feed
Canvas in the Salesforce Mobile App
Customizing Your App Lifecycle
Reference
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Set Canvas App Location and Create the Action

To add a canvas app to the publisher or action bar, you must set the location and create the action when you create the canvas app.
  1. In Salesforce, from Setup, enter Apps in the Quick Find box, then select Apps.
  2. In the Connected Apps related list, click New. Fill out the basic fields for your canvas app. See Create the Canvas App.
  3. In the Canvas App settings, select Canvas and in the Locations field, select Publisher. You must select this location for your canvas app to appear in both the publisher in the full Salesforce site and in the action bar in the Salesforce mobile app.
  4. Select the Create Actions Automatically field. This creates a quick action for the canvas app.
  5. To hide the publisher header, which contains the "What are you working on?" text, select Hide Publisher Header. This hides the header in both the full Salesforce site and in the Salesforce mobile app.
  6. To hide the publisher Share button from users in both the full Salesforce site and in the Salesforce mobile app, select Hide Publisher Share Button. This checkbox is enabled only if Hide Publisher Header has been selected.

For the canvas app to appear as an action, you must add the action to the global publisher layout. See “Customizing Global Publisher Layouts” in the Salesforce Help.