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# Custom Buttons and Links

Custom buttons and links help you integrate Salesforce data with external URLs, applications, your company’s intranet, or other internal office systems.

### Required Editions

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Salesforce supports these custom links and custom buttons.

 
| Type of Custom Link or Custom Button | Setup Page Where It’s Configured |
| --- | --- |
| Bookmark-style links defined in the standard custom links home page component | Home Page Components |
| Full-featured custom links included in custom home page components | Custom Links |
| Full-featured custom links or custom buttons on objects | Buttons, Links, and Actions (in the object’s management settings) |

Custom links can link to an external URL, such as www.google.com, a Visualforce page, or your company’s intranet. Custom links can also link to a custom s-control in the custom s-control library, such as a Java applet or Active-X control.

Custom buttons can:

- Connect users to external applications, such as a web page that displays a map to a contact’s address.
- Run an s-control from the s-control library, such as an s-control that escalates a case from the case detail page.
- Launch custom links.

You can choose the display window properties that determine how the target of a link or button is displayed to your users. Custom links and s-controls can include Salesforce fields as tokens within the URL or custom s-control. For example, you can include an account name in a URL that searches Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p={!Account\_Name}.

You can override the default action of some standard buttons and customize the behavior of tab home pages to suit your org’s needs.

- **[Define Custom Buttons and Links](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.defining_custom_links.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Define the action that occurs when a user clicks a custom button or link. Custom buttons and links can streamline actions within Salesforce or integrate Salesforce data with external URLs, applications, or systems.
- **[Override Standard Buttons and Tab Home Pages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.links_customize_override.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You can override the behavior of standard buttons—like New, View, or Edit—in Salesforce Classic, Lightning Experience, and mobile independently. You can also override the tab home page that displays when a user clicks a standard, custom, or external object tab.
- **[Custom Button and Link Samples](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.links_useful_custom_buttons.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use samples of custom Salesforce buttons and links to determine whether they can work for you.
- **[Custom Button and Link Considerations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.links_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Keep these considerations in mind when working with custom buttons and links.
- **[Custom Button and Link Limitations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.custom_button_link_limitations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Keep these limitations in mind when working with custom buttons and links.
- **[Viewing References to Salesforce Components](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.links_viewing_references.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    View a list of all the areas in Salesforce that reference a component. For example, view the custom links, custom buttons, or page layouts that reference another component, such as a Visualforce page or static resource.

#### See Also

- [Define Custom Buttons and Links](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.defining_custom_links.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Define the action that occurs when a user clicks a custom button or link. Custom buttons and links can streamline actions within Salesforce or integrate Salesforce data with external URLs, applications, or systems.")
- [Add Default Custom Links](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.adding_default_custom_links.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Update predefined custom links for account, contact, lead, campaign, and solution detail pages.")
- [Salesforce Classic Home Tab Page Layouts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=customize_homepage.htm&language=en_US)