Lightning page types in App Builder
Key Takeaway
Lightning Experience record pages and the Home page take their actions from object and global page layouts, so you can't add, edit, or remove those actions in the Lightning App Builder. On app pages, by contrast, you choose the global actions in the Lightning App Builder.
A Lightning page is a custom layout you build in the Lightning App Builder by placing Lightning components into the regions of a template. Each page has a type, such as an app page, Home page, or record page. The type decides where the page appears, which interfaces support it, and how actions behave on it.
How a Lightning page is built
Lightning pages sit between page layouts and Visualforce pages. Like a page layout, a Lightning page lets you add custom items to a page. On a Lightning page, the items are Lightning components rather than fields or Visualforce components, which gives you more flexibility.
Lightning components are compact, configurable, reusable building blocks that you drop into a page's regions. A Lightning component can be any of these:
- A standard component, built by Salesforce
- A custom component, built by you or someone else
- A third-party component from AppExchange
The template you choose divides the page into regions. The template also controls how the page displays on each device, so the page's structure adapts to the device it's viewed on.
In a console app, you can create a Lightning page with pinned regions, so users can view and work with records while they move between subtabs.