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Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook

By : Paul Goodey, Paul Goodey GP
Book Image

Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook

By: Paul Goodey, Paul Goodey GP

Overview of this book

Salesforce CRM is a market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) application that is accessed over the Internet. It is a proven system which helps to manage large volumes of information across an organization and also improves communication between departments for exceptional customer service. The CRM application is available for the management of sales projections and orders, marketing plans, knowledge management, service and support, partner relationships, and data analytics. The application greatly enhances a company's sales performance, improves customer satisfaction, and provides a robust customer relationship management system for an organization. For optimum performance of the system, there are a lot of things for you as the Salesforce administrator to know and tackle, but there isn't a single book which focuses on the administrative aspect of Salesforce CRM. "Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook" enables you to instantly extend and unleash the power of Salesforce CRM. It provides clear, comprehensive instructions along with detailed screenshots and code. Whether you are looking for solutions to enhance the core features or are looking for ideas for advanced customization techniques, this book will provide you with immediate, practical, and exciting real-world recipes. This book provides practical, step-by-step instructions that cover the use of hidden features, advanced user interface techniques, solutions for process automation, and data and systems integration in detail. This book guides you through interesting topics spanning a variety of functional areas. Recipes are provided that cover data quality and automation, approval and workflow processing, solutions to increase productivity, and the integration of Salesforce CRM with external tools and applications, such as Google and Microsoft Outlook. "Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook' provides practical, step-by-step instructions to deliver enhanced functionality and extend the power of Salesforce CRM.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an opportunity close date e-mail alert using workflow


As best practice in CRM systems, when creating sales opportunities there should always be a close date with which we can forecast, report, and monitor the progress of the sale.

In Salesforce CRM, the close date can be referred to in order to automatically trigger an e-mail that alerts the opportunity owner that the sales opportunity is nearing the scheduled close date.

To create this automatic sending of close date e-mail alerts, the following recipe makes use of a Salesforce workflow rule and e-mail alert.

Getting ready

Create an e-mail template using the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the new e-mail template creation page, by going to Your Name | Setup | Email | My Templates.

  2. Select My Personal Email Templates from the Folder drop-down list.

  3. Click on the New Template button as shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    Here, we are presented with the Step 1: Email Template: New Template page.

  4. Choose the Text option and click on the Next...