Overview of Application Pages

Use Application Composer to modify application pages. You can make changes that some, or all, of your end users can see, depending on the conditions you set. You can create new pages for a custom object and modify existing pages for standard objects.

Custom Objects

You can create a set of application pages for all custom objects. Read this chapter to learn how.

Standard Objects

In addition, you can modify the application pages of many standard objects.

Objects whose application pages are extensible have a tab called Application Pages when the Pages node is selected.

1. In Application Composer, navigate to the object that you're interested in.

2. Click the Pages node.

3. Click the Application Pages tab.

   You can duplicate and then modify the page layouts listed on this tab.

Examples of Page Modifications

Some of the page modifications that you can make using Application Composer include:

• Hide or show custom fields

  Tip: When creating custom fields, set a maximum width of 15-20 characters for optimum display on application pages.

• Hide or show standard fields

• Extend form regions

• Extend table regions

• Reorder fields (tables and pages)

• Change field labels

• Add subtabs

You can also set conditions on your new page layouts. For example, maybe only certain roles can see the fields that you add to a page.