Productivity and Collaboration Flashcards
Activities
- Made up of BOTH Tasks and Events
- Can be created from a Parent records or from the task, events, and calendar object home page
- Can be created, viewed, and related to records such as Accounts, Cases, Contacts, and Opportunities
- Can be independent as a personal task or event
- Can be viewed from the Calendar for Events or Task List on the home page for Tasks
- Related to Standalone (Personal Tasks and Events)
Shared Activities
- A Task or Event that is related to multiple contacts (for example, recording attendees of a meeting)
- Up to 50 contacts can be related to a shared Task or Event. This includes a designated primary contact
- When a Primary Contact is selected, the name appears in the ‘Name’ field and can be used in search filters
- MUST be enabled in Setup
Archived Activities
- Salesforce permanently stores these types of activities, which can be viewed from the timeline by clicking the ‘View All’ option
- Can be viewed in the ‘Activity’ timeline
Activity Settings
- Controls general activity behavior and functionality
- The following settings can be enabled or disabled:
1.) Group Tasks
2.) Activity Reminders
3.) Multi-Day Events (events that are more than 24-hour durations)
4.) Recurring Tasks and Events (SF Classic ONLY)
Activity Timeline
- Displays next steps and past activities on an Opportunity, Lead, Account, Contact, Contract, and custom objects that have activity enabled
- Above the feature is the Activity Composer, which allows Tasks and meetings to be added easily
- Upcoming & Overdue: This section displays Open Tasks and Upcoming Events
- Overdue Tasks’ dates are shown in red
- Filters may be used to only display activities that meet chosen criteria
Account Timeline
- Feature which shows how events and tasks can be managed without leaving the record page
- Tasks can be added easily and will appear in the Upcoming & Overdue section
- Tasks can be closed in 1 link
- Tasks can be updated from the Activity Timeline
Task
- A To-Do item that can have a due date as an option
- Can be assigned to other Users
- 1 component of Activities
- Can be customized with custom fields, validation rules, record types, and page layouts
- Can be assigned to a Queue and can be completed by any Queue member
- Can be copied by clicking the ‘Create Follow-Up Task’ or ‘Create Follow-Up Event’ buttons
- These can be set for Recurrences
- List view can be accessed from the _____ tab
- Today’s, open, overdue, and recently completed _____ can be shown
- These fields can be edited directly on the List View. The fields displayed can be customized
- Users can view their own _____, and managers can see their team’s _____
- Can be shared to multiple contacts in a Case record
Group Task
- Can be assigned up to 200 Users
- A separate copy of the Task is created for each User with this feature
- After the Users are selected, and before the Task is created, the total number of Tasks to be created is displayed
Events
- Scheduled Calendar events with a duration
- Can be assigned to other Users
- 1 component of Activities
- Can be customized with custom fields, validation rules, record types, and page layouts
- Can be set for Recurrences
Multi-Day & Repeating Events
Events that last for more than 24 hours; these can be enabled or disabled by navigating to ‘Activity Settings’ in Setup
WhoID Field
- Represents the related Leads or Contact records
- Both Tasks and Events have this field
WhatID Field
- Field which is used for relating to Account, Opportunity, Campaign, Case, and other objects
- Both Tasks and Events have this field
Recurrence
- Repeat event or Task wherein the frequency can be set
- Can be set for Tasks and Events
Salesforce Classic
- No ‘Activities’ tab
- Activities are created and viewed ONLY from the related record
Lightning Experience
- A ‘Task’ List View is available
- Tasks can be created from the List View
- The ‘Open Activities’ and ‘Activity History’ related lists are replaced with the ‘Activities’ component
Roll-Up Setting
- When this setting is updated:
1.) Only new Activities are affected
2.) Existing activities are only affected if they’re updated in a way that causes this is be recalculated, such as when an Activity is closed - In an org where Contacts can relate to multiple accounts, it is NOT recommended to update this setting
Calendar
- A visual form of tracking Events
- Can be personal or public
- Personal _________ can be shared with users
- Public _________ can be shared with public groups, roles, and users
- If a User creates an Event and associates a file to it, ANYBODY with access to the Event can also view this file
- Every User has a personal ________. Owners can grant access to other Users
- Admins can create public _________ and resources
- Public _________ and resources can be shared with manager subordinate groups, manager groups, public groups, Roles, Roles & internal subordinates, territories, territories & subordinates, and Users
- By default, NO sharing is set up
- Can be used to view and organize individual or group meetings and _________
- Individual _________ cna be scheduled or hidden
- There is a limit of 150 items that can be displayed in a day or week view. Beyond that limit, SF already prompts an Alert and hides items on other _________
- This can be customized by applying a List View
- A User can share the MyEvents _________ with a manager or other colleagues, but NOT with personal and public groups
Public Calendars
Calendars which are used to manage group activities
Resource Calendars
Calendars which can be used to schedule the use of shared _________, like a conference room or equipment
Lightning Sync
- Feature which can be configured to synchronize contacts and events between Salesforce and Outlook
- This feature can also synchronize Contacts and Events between a Microsoft Exchange-based calendar and Salesforce
- Can be configured to define who can sync and what items they can sync
- Private events can be set up to sync between Outlook and Salesforce
- Event attendee details sync automatically when the event organizer is set up to sync events and the email addresses match Contacts, Leads, or User Profiles
- It can be customized to determine whether Users sync events, and in some cases, in which direction
- Filters can be created to limit contacts or events from syncing
- This feature can be set up such that deleting a syncing Event removesvits counterpart from the other system automatically
- This feature is no longer available to customers who purchase SF starting in Winter 2021
6 Activity Management Capabilities
1.) Tasks & Events
2.) Activity Timeline
3.) Calendars
4.) Group Tasks
5.) Shared Activities
6.) Multi-Day & Repeating Events
Notification Cards
Events and Task Reminders display as these
Resources
- When these are needed for a meeting, they can be booked in calendar events such as attendees
- A ________ calendar can be used to schedule and organize the use of a shared ________, such as equipments and conference rooms
- Ex: Computers
Event Series
- Another term for ‘Repeating Events’
- Allows Users to create Events that repeat at a specified interval
- Can be scheduled by creating a new event in the Calendar tab
- The ‘Repeat’ checkbox MUST be selected
- Frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly) and a series end date (none, after a specific number of events, or on a specific end date) need to be specified
Outlook Integration
- An add-in for Outlook that can be used to integrate Outlook with Salesforce
- A productivity feature that helps users access Salesforce directly from Outlook
- This feature can do the following 6 things:
1.) View Salesforce records
2.) Create Salesforce records
3.) Log E-Mails
4.) Search for records
5.) Create E-Mails with Templates
6.) Snc Contacts and Events - Can be used to log Events to SF records, such as Contacts and Leads
- If relating multiple contacts to tasks and events is enabled, matching contacts are automatically selected
- While this shows the first 15 matching contacts, reps can log an event to up to 50 Contacts or one Lead
Unresolved Items
Items that cannot be assigned to Salesforce records appear here in Salesforce
7 Objects that can be viewed from Outlook when they both have related E-Mails:
1.) Contacts
2.) Accounts
3.) Leads
4.) Opportunities
5.) Cases
6.) Users
7.) Custom Objects
3 Salesforce Add-In Tab Functionalities
1.) Show related SF records
2.) Manage Tasks
3.) Use templates
Enhanced E-Mail
Can be enabled to allow relating emails to Salesforce records
G-Mail Integration
- Gives a quick view of sales-related records without switching between Salesforce and Gmail
- Sales reps can view and relate Salesforce Contacts, Leads, Accounts, Opportunities, and Cases relevant to the Gmail messages received or sent
- New Salesforce records can be created using the Action Publisher
- Inline editing feature can be used to modify records without leaving Gmail
- The global search can be used in the pane to find other person records
- A Contact or Lead can be created directly from this tool when a Sales rep receives an email from an address that doesn’t match an e-mail in a record in Salesforce
- Recipients’ email privacy settings can be seen in the ___________ pane
- If using Google Chrome on a desktop, there is a browser extension that provides this tool
- Users can log emails from Gmail to Contacts, Leads, or Person Accounts in the ‘To’ or ‘Cc’ fields or any person record in Salesforce
- While logging emails using the ‘Log Email’ button, Sales reps can select the exact people and Salesforce records to relate to an email
- Sales reps can manually log emails from this pane, even if the Einstein Activity Capture settings has emails disabled
- Salesforce Inbox users who are part of an Einstein Activity Capture configuration that has emails disabled can also log emails
- The most relevant record will be selected by default if there are multiple people records that match the email address
- The order for people matching is: standard users, contacts, leads, and other Users
- Sales reps can manually log events to records
- If relating multiple contacts to tasks and events is enabled, matching contacts are automatically selected
- While the integration shows the first 15 matching contacts, reps can log an event to up to 50 contacts or 1 lead
- Allows Sales reps to work with Salesforce data from their Gmail inbox
‘Batch Edit’ Feature
Feature which could be used to select and assign multiple items (up to 50) at one time
Salesforce for Outlook
- Older product (newer version is Outlook Integration) which syncs Contacts, Events, and Tasks between a desktop based version of Outlook and Salesforce
- Also allows viewing Salesforce records related to Contacts and Leads, and adding emails, attachments, Events, and Tasks to Salesforce contacts
- Scheduled for full product retirement in June 2024
Einstein Activity Capture
- Can be used to automatically add email and Events from User email and calendar applications to the activity timeline of related records
- Events, including internal events, are synced to Salesforce calendar and added to the activity timeline of the related Salesforce record
- Contacts synced between Salesforce and the external calendars and email application
- Contact data is used by Einstein Email Insights
- User productivity is improved with this tool. For example, Sales reps no longer have to manually log activities so they can focus on other sales tasks. Field mapping on Events and Contacts can be customized as well
- Several settings are available to select which data can be logged and shared
- Also, e-mails with sensitive information are automatically identified and not shared to anyone else apart from the recipient
- In order to implement this feature, Lightning Sync MUST be turned OFF
Activity Metric Fields
- Fields which can be added on list views, page layouts, reports, triggers, processes, etc.
- Can display the summary of sales activities for a particular record. For example, first email date, inactive days, last call date, last email sent date, last email received date, and many more
- Different fields are available for Accounts, Contacts, Contracts, Leads, and Opportunities
- Can be turned on by going to the ‘Einstein Activity Capture’ menu in Setup and by navigating to ‘Settings’ and then the ‘Capture Settings’ tab
- Are NOT available with Einstein Activity Capture Standard. The necessary editions and/or licenses are required for the feature.
Einstein Activity Capture Configuration
- Can be created to define how data flows between Salesforce and the connected accounts
- The ‘Settings’ tab can be used to enable Einstein Activity Capture, edit the records that activities are added to, and enable the ‘Activities’ dashboard
- The ‘Settings’ tab also allows an Admin to edit activity sharing settings, sync internal events, and enable showing-only events that are Salesforce records in the activity timeline
- E-mail Settings are available to prevent automated email replies from being shared and prevent sensitive emails from being shared
- The Advanced Settings of a configuration allows an Admin adjust the time frame of emails and events initially captured when users connect their accounts to Salesforce for the first time
Chatter
- SF’s form of social media
- Access is available for standard SF licensed Users
- There are only 3 licenses: External, Free, and Only
- Users can view and respond to posts that they have access with
- Only people with access to a particular record or group can see posts and the record activity feed
- Other people can comment on a post, and the conversation will be organized in a thread
- Enabled by default in SF orgs
4 Settings that are available when Chatter is enabled in an Org
1.) Enabled for new orgs automatically but can be turned off
2.) Allow Customer invitations - Control if Users can invite people outside of the org to join a private group
3.) Profile-Based Chatter: Can be enabled for part of the org by enabling Profile-based Chatter rollout (Salesforce needs to enable the feature)
4.) Allow Saleforce.com Users to invite coworkers who don’t have licenses to Chatter. These Coworker Chatter Users can see only Profiles, files, and groups
Chatter Only (a.k.a Chatter Plus License)
- Licenses target Users with no SF licenses but needs access to some SF objects in edition to Chatter
- There is a cost for adding this license
- Can no longer be purchased, but those with existing licenses can add licenses
- Users can access standard Chatter people, Profiles, Groups, Files, Dashboards, Reports, and limited functionality
- Provides access to SF functionality and limited object access
- Can use and improve Workflows with this license
- Calendars can be used to create and track activities
- A User can modify up to 10 custom objects
8 Chatter Features
1.) Posts
2.) Topics
3.) Chatter Editions
4.) Chatter Settings
5.) Feed
6.) Groups
7.) Following
8.) Security
Posts
1st Chatter Feature; Updates or Comments made on a particular record or within the group
Chatter Editions
3rd Chatter feature; Chatter Free, Chatter External, and Chatter Only (plus) licenses are available for Users
Chatter Settings
4th Chatter feature; available in Setup for groups, rich link previews, and feed
Feed
5th Chatter feature; Tracking can be enabled for objects and up to 20 fields in Setup
Groups
6th Chatter feature; Private, Public, or Unlisted ______ can be created to allow people to collaborate
Following
7th Chatter feature; Records or Users can be ________ to make Chatter activity appear in the Feed
Security
8th Chatter feature; Chatter post access is determined by record or group access
4 Things Chatter Feeds can do
1.) Can create a sorted list of Activities (ex: posts, comments, record updates) related to a person or a record
2.) Files and links can be commented as post to collaborate with other Users
3.) Enable Feed Tracking for objects to allow tracking changes on records
4.) Post polls to conduct a survey
Chatter File
Allows files up to 2 GB to be attached to a post or comment on Chatter
Chatter Follow Records or Users
Records or Chatter Users can be “followed” so that other Users can be notified and see their Field updates
3 Things Chatter Groups Can Do
1.) Create public or private groups to collaborate with specific people
2.) Invite customers to private groups to work with external Users
3.) Post announcements in Chatter groups
Chatter Like
A vote of approval to ‘Like’ a post or comment in Chatter
Chatter Messages
Get secure and private conversations with other Chatter Users when using this feature