You enable Related List Hover Links once for the whole org from the User Interface settings in Salesforce Classic. After that, every standard and custom object detail page shows the link strip. The steps below cover turning it on and confirming the result.
- Open User Interface settings
In Salesforce Classic, go to Setup, then Customize, then User Interface. This page holds the org-wide display options for Classic pages.
- Enable the hover links checkbox
Find the option named Enable Related List Hover Links and select its checkbox. The change applies to all users and all object detail pages.
- Save the page
Click Save at the bottom of the User Interface settings page so the setting takes effect across the org.
- Verify on a record
Open any record with several related lists, such as an Account. Confirm the link strip appears near the top, then hover one link to check the overlay and click another to confirm the jump.
The checkbox that turns the link strip on for every Classic object detail page in the org.
A separate checkbox on the same page that controls single-record preview overlays from list and lookup hovers, sourced from the mini page layout.
Edit each object page layout to set which related lists appear and in what order, since the hover links mirror that layout.
- The setting is Salesforce Classic only. Users working in Lightning Experience will not see hover links no matter how the checkbox is set.
- It is org-wide, with no per-profile control. You cannot enable hover links for one team and not another.
- Do not confuse Enable Related List Hover Links with Enable Hover Details. The first reaches related lists; the second previews a single record from its mini page layout.
- For Lightning orgs, add the Related List Quick Links component in the Lightning App Builder instead of relying on this Classic switch.