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Custom Actions

Custom Actions

Custom Actions extend the Life Sciences Cloud mobile app by opening external URLs, launching installed apps, or sending prompts to Agentforce from record pages.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with Life Sciences Cloud, Life Sciences Cloud for Customer Engagement Add-on license, and the Life Sciences Customer Engagement managed package.

Configure Custom Actions in the Admin Console. You can pass account object data as custom parameters. For example, set Target Parameters to q={Account.Name} to pass the account name to a URL.

Examples of Custom Actions include View Online, Open External App, Search Google, Search PubMed, and Search Clinical Trials.

Important
Important To show a Custom Action on a record page, create a corresponding Standard Action and add it to the page layout. Make sure that the Standard Action's Name matches the Custom Action's Quick Action field. Custom Actions on custom pages, such as the home page and Next Best Customer, don't require a Standard Action.

Action Types

Action Type Description
App Opens an external app installed on the device, such as Slack or iOS Calendar.
URL Opens an internal or external URL. Supports custom parameters.
Utterance Sends a predefined prompt to Agentforce.

Target Types

Target Description
Inline Used for URL actions. Opens the URL in a window within the Life Sciences Cloud mobile app.
External Used for URL actions. Opens the URL in Safari, outside the app.
Internal Used for GoTo actions only. GoTo actions navigate users from the Visit record page or list view directly to a specific section of Visit Engagement.

Entity Types (Location)

Entity Type Description
SObject The action is available on the object defined in the Entity Name field.
Page The action is available on a page.
Tab The action is available on a tab.
Home Page The action is available on the mobile app home page.
Generic Workflow The action is available in a generic workflow context.
 
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