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# Action Entity

> Action Entity — CometChat documentation.

Base class for defining the type of actions that can be performed on BaseInteractiveElement

| Action         | Description                                                                                         | Key           |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| Api Action     | To perform Post, PUT, DELETE, PATCH type of API actions on the user-defined APIs with given payload | apiAction     |
| URL Navigation | To open any defined action on a given URL                                                           | urlNavigation |
| Custom Action  | To set custom action on the front end                                                               | customAction  |

#### Api Action

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="TypeScript">
    ```ts theme={null}
    const apiAction = new APIAction(
      url, //Replace this with the required url
      HTTPSRequestMethods.POST //replace this with the type of method
    );

    apiAction.setPayload(payload); //set the payloaf forn the request

    apiAction.setHeaders(headers); //set the header for the request

    apiAction.setDataKey("cometchatData"); //replace this with the key , if you want to replace the key oin which all the data for form will be sent
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

#### Url Navigation

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="TypeScript">
    ```ts theme={null}
    const urlNavigation = new URLNavigationAction(
      url: "https://www.cometchat.com/",//Replace this with the required url
    );
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>