# Actions

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## Actions

Visualizing data is great, but at some point you're going to want to interact with it.

#### What is an action?

An action is a button that triggers server-side logic through an API call. Without a single line of code, Forest Admin natively supports all common actions required on an admin interface such as CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete), sort, search, data export, and more.

#### Native actions vs Smart Actions

In Forest Admin, all the available actions can fall into 2 categories.

**Native actions**

Those actions come out-of-the-box. We've covered them in details *from a route perspective* in [Routes](https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation/reference-guide/routes), but here is what the most common ones look like in the interface:

* **Create**: create a new record in a given collection **(1)**
* **Duplicate**: create a new record from an existing one **(2)**
* **Update**: edit a record's data **(3)**
* **Delete**: remove a record **(4)**

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**Smart Actions**

Smart actions are your own business-related actions, built with your own code. You'll learn how to use them in the [following page](https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation/reference-guide/create-and-manage-smart-actions#what-is-a-smart-action).

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#### Triggering different types of actions

Triggering an action is very simple, but the behavior can differ according to the type of action.

There are 3 types of actions :

* **Bulk** actions: the action will be available when you click on one or several desired records
* **Single** actions: the action is only available for one selected record at a time
* **Global** actions: the action is always available and will be executed on all records

In the following pages, we'll cover everything you need to know about interacting with your data through actions.