Building global and object-specific actions and action layouts

Global and object-specific quick actions in the Lightning Platform can be thought of as shortcuts that appear within the user interface. They are two forms of what is known as a quick action, which are available in both the desktop and mobile apps and can be used to create records, update records, log calls, and so on.

In the Salesforce mobile app, global and object-specific quick actions offer a quick way to access functions that launch a specific action or custom process automation that exists in the Lightning Platform.

In addition to the custom actions that are tailored to your business processes, the Salesforce Mobile App comes with standard pre-built actions. The quick actions are located within the action bar and the action menu that appear at the top of the screen of the mobile device.

Quick actions that are used to capture data input have their own type of page layout called an action layout and allow you...