Object-Specific Actions

For example, you add an object-specific action on the Account object that creates contacts. If a user creates a contact with that action on the detail page for the Acme account, that new contact is associated with Acme.

Object-specific actions are only available on page layouts for that object. For example, you can add the New Group Member action only to the group publisher layout.

When a user creates a record by using an object-specific create action, a feed item for that record appears:

• In the feed for the record on which the new record was created
• As the first entry in the feed for the new record
• In the Chatter feed of the user who created the record
• In the user profile feed for the user who created the record
• In the Chatter feed of any users who follow the record on which the record was created
• In the Chatter feed of any users who, through custom triggers or auto-follow rules for new records, automatically follow the new record

There are several types of object-specific quick actions.

• Object-specific Create a Record actions create records that are associated with related records.
• Object-specific Log a Call actions let users enter notes about calls, meetings, or other interactions that are related to a specific record.
  

  Note Make sure that you have only one Log A Call action on your page layout, If there are multiple Log a Call actions, Salesforce mobile app users see the Task layout when they click Call on their mobile devices. The required and editable fields from the layout can appear in a different order.
• Object-specific Update a Record actions make it easy for users to edit records. You can define the fields that are available for update.
• Object-specific custom actions invoke Lightning components, flows, Visualforce pages, or canvas apps that let users interact with or create records that have a relationship to an object record. The Visualforce page for an object-specific custom action must include the standard controller for the relevant object. For example, use the standard contact controller to create a custom action that lets users import a contact’s Twitter profile and add that information to a contact record.
• Object-specific Send Email actions, available only on cases, give users access to a simplified version of the Case Feed Email action in the Salesforce mobile app. You can use the case-specific Send Email action in Salesforce Classic, Lightning Experience, and the Salesforce mobile app.

• Create Object-Specific Quick Actions
  Object-specific actions let users create records with automatic relationships to other records, make updates to specific records, and interact with records in ways that you define.