We use the activities timeline on both Financial account pages and Account pages (Person, Household, Institution). On the financial account page, our activity timeline has one of our custom Task record types "Compliance Task" as an option to submit directly there. We do not have it on any other activity page on any other lightning page. I am trying to figure out why it is only showing there? I would like to have it be available option on all pages.
Hi Martin - the activity composer options (the tabs you 'submit directly' from in the timeline) don't come from the Activity Timeline component itself - they come from the page layout's 'Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions' for that object. So your 'Compliance Task' option shows on the Financial Account page because a custom quick action (a Create-a-Record > Task action defaulted to the Compliance Task record type) sits in that object's page-layout actions, and it's simply missing from the other objects' layouts.
To get it on the other pages:
1. Find the action: Setup > Object Manager > Financial Account > Page Layouts > (the layout you use) > 'Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions' - locate the Compliance Task action and note whether it's a Global action or a Financial-Account-specific one.
2. If it's a global quick action: add it to the 'Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions' section on the Account page layouts too - and remember Person, Household, and Institution are Account record types in FSC, so add it to each Account layout those record types use (check Page Layout Assignment).
3. If it's an object-specific action on Financial Account: you can't reuse it on Account, so create an equivalent object-specific quick action on Account (New > Create a Record > Task, then default the record type to Compliance Task) and add that to those layouts.
4. Confirm the Compliance Task record type is assigned to the relevant profiles - it clearly is where it works, but worth checking for the profiles hitting the other pages.
The mental model: the composer follows each object's page layout, and each object (and record type) can use a different layout - that's why it appears on one and not the others. Add the action to those layouts and it'll show everywhere.
Hope that sorts it!