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# Set Up Actions Without Chatter Enabled

You can set up object-specific and global actions for the Salesforce mobile app or third-party apps, even if your org doesn’t have Chatter enabled.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d156157e87 ">To set up actions:</td>

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![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_note.png)

Note Beginning in Summer ’26, Chatter is turned off by default in all new orgs. For any features in these orgs that require access to Chatter functionality or the Chatter APIs, turn on Chatter by going to **Setup** | **Chatter Settings** and selecting **Enable**. For details, see [Chatter Is Turned Off by Default in New Orgs Beginning in Summer ’26](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_chatter_default_off.htm&type=5&language=en_US).

When Chatter is disabled in an org, only the nonstandard actions appear in the action bar in the Salesforce mobile app or in third-party apps that use action lists. Nonstandard actions include Create, Update, Log a Call, custom actions, and Mobile Smart Actions.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_note.png)

Note You can create actions in Salesforce Classic when Chatter is disabled. Those actions don’t appear in Salesforce Classic, but can appear in Lightning Experience and the Salesforce mobile app if you don’t customize the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section of the page layout editor.

Follow these steps to set up actions for use in the Salesforce mobile app or third-party apps.

1. Create object-specific actions or global actions.
2. Customize the action layout with the fields that you want users to see when they use the action.
3. Add the actions to page layouts or global publisher layouts.
    
    Salesforce automatically adds default actions to the page layouts for account, case, contact, lead, and opportunity, and to the global publisher layout in organizations that were created after Winter ‘14.

#### See Also

- [Create Object-Specific Quick Actions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.creating_object_specific_actions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Object-specific actions let users create records with automatic relationships to other records, make updates to specific records, and interact with records in ways that you define.")
- [Create Global Quick Actions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.creating_global_actions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can add global actions to any page that supports actions, like the Home page, the Chatter tab, object pages, and custom Lightning app pages. For example, add a Log a Call action to global layouts so users can record call details right from a Chatter thread.")
- [Customize Actions with the Enhanced Page Layout Editor](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.adding_actions_using_ple.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the page layout editor to customize which actions show up in Salesforce and in the Salesforce mobile app.")