Lightning pages overview
Lightning pages allow you to add custom items to a page with much more flexibility than the older page layouts that are used in Salesforce Classic. Lightning pages allow you to pull in the page layouts and add much more customization and flexibility. You can create three types of Lightning pages:
- An app page that you can add to the navigation bar of a Lightning app, which makes it appear when that app is viewed in both Lightning Experience and the Salesforce mobile apps
- A customized home page for Lightning Experience
- A custom record page for Lightning Experience and the Salesforce mobile app
For our example, we will create a customized record page for Lightning Experience and the Salesforce mobile app.
Business use case
You are the Salesforce admin for XYZ Widgets. The business has asked for an Account Lightning page for the Standard User profile, which would default to show the record details and have a more user-friendly...