Creating custom tabs

To create or view records related to the objects, you have to associate a tab with it. In Salesforce, tabs are ways to create, manage, edit, and delete records. Custom objects and tabs have a one-to-one relationship; it means that you can't associate one object with more than one tab. The following types of tab exist in Salesforce:

  • Custom Object Tabs: This type of tab is used to associate a custom object
  • Web Tabs: This type of tab is used to display any external web-based application or web page in a tab
  • Visualforce Tabs: This type of tab is used to associate a Visualforce page
  • Lightning Page Tabs: This type of tab is used to associate a Lightning page

A business scenario: David Guzman has created the custom object registration ...

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