Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Apex Cursors
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Use Cases for the CommercePayments Namespace
Connect in Apex
Connect in Apex Examples
Connect in Apex Features
Working with Action Links
Action Links Overview, Authentication, and Security
Action Links Use Case
Working with Feeds and Feed Elements
Accessing ConnectApi Data in Experience Cloud Sites
Methods Available to Experience Cloud Guest Users
Supported Validations for DBT Segments
Using ConnectApi Input and Output Classes
Understanding Limits for ConnectApi Classes
Packaging ConnectApi Classes
Serializing and Deserializing ConnectApi Objects
ConnectApi Versioning and Equality Checking
Casting ConnectApi Objects
Wildcards
Testing ConnectApi Code
Differences Between ConnectApi Classes and Other Apex Classes
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Data 360 In Apex
DataWeave in Apex
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Experience Cloud Sites
Email
External Services
Flows
Formula Evaluation in Apex
Metadata
Permission Set Groups
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Files
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Salesforce Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
PDF

Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Working with Action Links

An action link is a button on a feed element. Clicking an action link can take a user to a Web page, initiate a file download, or invoke an API call to Salesforce or to an external server. An action link includes a URL and an HTTP method, and can include a request body and header information, such as an OAuth token for authentication. Use action links to integrate Salesforce and third-party services into the feed so that users can drive productivity and accelerate innovation.

Workflow

This feed item contains one action link group with one visible action link, Join.

Join action link on a feed item

The workflow to create and post action links with a feed element:

  1. (Optional) Create an action link template.
  2. Call ConnectApi.ActionLinks.createActionLinkGroupDefinition(communityId, actionLinkGroup) to define an action link group that contains at least one action link.
  3. Call ConnectApi.ChatterFeeds.postFeedElement(communityId, feedElement) to post a feed element and associate the action link with it.

Use these methods to work with action links.

ConnectApi Method Task
ActionLinks.createActionLinkGroupDefinition​(communityId, actionLinkGroup)

ActionLinks.deleteActionLinkGroupDefinition(communityId, actionLinkGroupId)

ActionLinks.getActionLinkGroupDefinition(communityId, actionLinkGroupId)

 Create an action link group definition. To associate an action link group with a feed element, first create an action link group definition. Then post a feed element with an associated actions capability.
ChatterFeeds.postFeedElement(communityId, feedElement) Post a feed element with an associated actions capability. Associate up to 10 action link groups with a feed element.
ActionLinks.getActionLink(communityId, actionLinkId) Get information about an action link, including state for the context user.
ActionLinks.getActionLinkGroup(communityId, actionLinkGroupId) Get information about an action link group including state for the context user.
ActionLinks.getActionLinkDiagnosticInfo(communityId, actionLinkId) Get diagnostic information returned when an action link executes. Diagnostic information is given only for users who can access the action link.
ChatterFeeds.getFeedElementsFromFeed() Get the feed elements from a specified feed type. If a feed element has action links associated with it, the action links data is returned in the feed element’s associated actions capability.