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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

Creating a pre-populated opportunity from an account record page using a Lightning Action


In this recipe, we will create a Lightning Action that is presented on an account record page that allows users to create opportunities with a pre-populated set of data.

Upon clicking the Lightning Action, the Close Date and the sales stage are pre-populated, which prevents users from having to select and enter this information to improve data quality and save time.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to create a pre-populated opportunity record using a Lightning Action from within the account record page:

  1. Click on the Setup gear icon, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Setup gear icon is located in the top right-hand area of the main Home page.

  1. Click the Setup option, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Navigate to the Account customization setup page by clicking the following: Objects and Fields | Object Manager | Account | Buttons, Links, and Actions.
  2. Locate the Buttons,Links,and Actions...