Actions in Lightning Experience

Actions in the Global Actions Menu

The Global Actions menu displays a subset of global actions from the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section of the global publisher layout.

The items in the menu appear in the order that they’re listed in the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section of the global publisher layout.

Actions associated with objects that aren’t supported in Lightning Experience don’t appear in the Global Actions menu. Also, the Global Actions menu doesn’t support standard Chatter actions.

Actions on List Views and List View Items

Custom list buttons, list view actions, and certain standard buttons are supported on all list views, except Recently Viewed. To have a custom list button appear on a list view, add the button to the object’s List View Button Layout.

In the Kanban view, only the standard New action is supported.

List view items support only specific standard actions, like Edit, Delete, or Change Owner.

For Tasks, table format list views and the Kanban view support only standard buttons. Tasks list view items in table view, and the task item detail pane in split view contain the complete list of available actions for tasks.

Actions on the Home Page

On the Home page, you can find actions on recommendations in the Assistant. For example, imagine that a sales rep receives an update that an opportunity doesn’t have any open activity. The rep can create a task or event directly from the recommendation.

The actions that appear depend on the type of recommendation. To appear in the Assistant, actions must be added to the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section of the global publisher layout. Supported actions include:

• New Task
• New Event
• Edit
• Email

After you complete an action, the related recommendation disappears from the Assistant.

Actions on the Chatter Page

The Chatter page, like the Chatter tab on record pages, contains only standard Chatter actions. By default, only the Post, Poll, and Question actions are supported, and if you have Groups, the Announcement action. You can add, remove, or reorder the actions on the Chatter page from the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section of the global publisher layout.

Note Beginning in Summer ’26, Chatter is turned off by default in all new orgs. For any features in these orgs that require access to Chatter functionality or the Chatter APIs, turn on Chatter by going to Setup | Chatter Settings and selecting Enable. For details, see Chatter Is Turned Off by Default in New Orgs Beginning in Summer ’26.

Actions on Record Pages

Here’s a sample contact page in Lightning Experience.

Note The opportunity and leads workspaces have different structures, but actions appear in the same way on those pages.

The page-level action menu in the record’s highlights panel (1) contains:

• Productivity actions
• Global and object-specific quick actions, except for those actions related to creating tasks, creating events, and logging calls
• Standard buttons
• Custom object-specific Lightning component and Lightning web component quick actions
• Custom flow actions
• Custom Visualforce quick actions
• Custom Visualforce buttons
• Canvas actions

The actions that appear in the page-level action menu are listed in the order that they appear in the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section of the page layout.

Note You can enable dynamic actions in the highlights panel on an object’s record page using the Lightning App Builder. Dynamic actions are supported for custom objects on desktop and mobile and for standard objects on desktop. Add, remove, and reorder actions directly in the Lightning App Builder and control action visibility based on filters that you apply. When you enable dynamic actions in the Lightning App Builder, highlights panel actions for the record page no longer come from the object’s page layout. Custom Lightning page templates with dynamic actions aren't supported in Salesforce Mobile.

The Activity tab (2) contains Create a Record quick actions that point to the Event and Task objects. It also contains Log A Call and Send Email actions.

The Chatter tab (3) contains standard Chatter actions. By default, only the Post, Poll, and Question actions are supported, and if you have Groups, the Announcement action. Some objects support other standard Chatter actions predefined by Salesforce.

Note Actions on user profiles, cases, and work orders can appear in a different way than on other records.

• Actions on the user profile page come from the Quick Actions in the Salesforce Classic Publisher section of the global publisher layout. Only standard Chatter actions appear on the user profile page, regardless of which actions are assigned to the User Page Layout or the global publisher layout.
• When feed tracking is enabled for cases or work orders, the page-level action menu on those records contains only custom buttons and supported standard buttons. Quick actions appear on the Chatter tab. On Experience Builder sites, quick actions for work orders appear on the page-level action menu.

Actions on Related Lists

Related lists in Lightning Experience (4) show custom list buttons, supported quick actions, and supported standard buttons that are assigned to the related list. Not all related list standard buttons are supported in Lightning Experience.

Actions on Reports

Actions on reports come from the Quick Actions in the Salesforce Classic Publisher section of the global publisher layout. Only standard Chatter actions appear on reports, regardless of which other actions are assigned to the global publisher layout.