7 Adding Functionality with Plug-ins

When native APEX features don't fully meet your needs, you can easily extend the platform with plug-ins. These shared components add new functionality to your apps like a new kind of region, page item, dynamic action, page process, AI tool, workflow activity, data source, or scheme for authentication or authorization.

Developers with basic web design skills can create template components with no code, while other plug-in types require coding skills. Once a plug-in exists, the rest of the team can use it declaratively just like a built-in feature. However, before creating one yourself, search the APEX community "app store" site https://apex.world. The extended functionality you need might already be just a download away.

When your application incorporates plug-ins, you can review where each is used on the Utilization tab of the Shared Components > Plug-ins list page.

• Reusable Components Using HTML Skills
  A template component is a reusable user interface element you create without coding.
• Using a Plug-in from apex.world
  By using a existing plug-in from the apex.world "app store", you can quickly add new functionality that another developer or team has made available to the APEX community.