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Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Paul Goodey
Book Image

Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Paul Goodey

Overview of this book

Salesforce CRM is a market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) application that is accessed over the internet. This application greatly enhances a company's sales performance, improves customer satisfaction, and provides a robust customer relationship management system for an organization. Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook, Second Edition enables you to instantly extend and unleash the power of Salesforce CRM and its Lightning Experience framework. It provides clear, comprehensive instructions along with detailed screenshots and code. Whether you are looking for solutions to enhance the core features, such as data management, process automation, data validation, and home page administration, or are looking for ideas on advanced customization techniques, this book will provide you with immediate, practical, and exciting real-world recipes. This book guides you through interesting topics spanning a variety of functional areas. Recipes are provided that allow you to configure, build and extend the capability of Salesforce CRM using the Lightning Experience framework.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting a default Opportunity name using a field update workflow


Often, organizations apply a naming convention to records when entering and managing data in CRM applications. Sales management may often instruct their sales team to enter the name of opportunities as a combination of account name and deal name to help find and manage the processing of the opportunity records, for example, Acme Opportunity X.

This business requirement for ensuring the consistency of opportunity name is a good use case for automation within Salesforce CRM. Automatically setting a default name for opportunities using a workflow rule and a field update can be achieved by carrying out the following steps.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to set a default name when creating an opportunity using a field update workflow rule:

  1. Click on the Setup gear icon in the top right-hand corner of the main Home page, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on Setup, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Navigate to...