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Create Visualforce Tabs
Build Visualforce tabs so that users can access Visualforce pages from within Salesforce.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create Visualforce Tabs: | Customize Application |
- From Setup, enter Tabs in the Quick Find box, then select Tabs.
- Click New in the Visualforce Tabs related list.
- Select the Visualforce page to display in the custom tab.
- Enter a label to display on the tab.
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Click the Tab Style lookup icon to display the Tab Style
Selector.
If a tab style is already in use, a number enclosed in brackets [] appears next to the tab style name. Hover your mouse over the style name to view the tabs that use the style. Click Hide styles which are used on other tabs to filter this list.
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Click a tab style to select the color scheme and icon for the custom tab.
Optionally, click Create your own style on the Tab Style
Selector dialog to create a custom tab style if your org has access to the
Documents tab. To create your own tab style:
- Click the Color lookup icon to display the color selection dialog and click a color to select it.
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Click Insert an Image, select the document
folder, and select the image you want to use.
Alternatively, click Search in Documents, enter a search term, and click Go! to find a document file name that includes your search term. This dialog only lists files in document folders that are under 20 KB and have the Externally Available checkbox selected in the document property settings. If the document used for the icon is later deleted, Salesforce replaces it with a default multicolor block icon (
). - Select a file and click OK. The New Custom Tab wizard reappears.
- Optionally, choose a custom link to use as the introductory splash page when users initially click the tab.
- Enter a description of the tab, if desired, and click Next.
- Choose the user profiles for which the new custom tab will be available.
- Specify the custom apps that should include the new tab.
- Select Append tab to users' existing personal customizations to add the tab to your users’ customized display settings if they have customized their personal display.
- Click Save.
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