Global Action to display custom content and navigate to the URL

An administrator can create a custom Global Action to display custom content in a drawer and to navigate to a URL.

These actions can be displayed on List page of any object or the Sales Dashboard.

In below image Help is a Global action of type Display custom content

Account List page Global Actions

Administrator can configure action like Help or Navigate to external URLs

Steps to Enable

Leverage the Visual Builder Studio to expose your applications. To learn more about extending your application using Visual Builder, visit Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > Books > Configuration and Extension.

Steps for Navigate to URL

• Create a Global Action "Navigate" of type "Navigate to URL" and provide the URL.

Steps for Display custom content

• Create a Global Action "Help" of type "Display custom content" and select required objects in Context section of Smart Action.
• In "container" page, create a new section in Drawer Container
• Add html in this new section.
• In "onBeforeInvokeGlobalActionEventListener" event write code as follows. "section" is new template created

Code for Global Action custom content

Tips And Considerations

For a Global Action to show custom content:

• If this Global Action is displayed  on the custom object list page, code will be written in the container of cx-custom
• If this Global Action is displayed on the standard object list page, code will be written in the container of cx-sales
• If this Global Action is displayed on the custom and standard object list page, code will be written in the container for both cx-sales and cx-custom.