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Salesforce for Beginners

Salesforce for Beginners

By : Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer
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Salesforce for Beginners

Salesforce for Beginners

4.7 (34)
By: Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer

Overview of this book

The second edition of Salesforce for Beginners provides you with a holistic introduction to the Salesforce platform. Whether you need help with the lead generation process, Salesforce user management and data security, or automating tasks with Salesforce Flow, this book is for you. Throughout this new edition you will find real-world business use cases to demonstrate concepts, screenshots of the latest UI displayed for screen navigation, and exercises at the end of every chapter to test your newfound knowledge. Working with the world’s leading CRM software, you will learn how to create activities, manage leads, develop your prospects and sales pipeline using opportunities and accounts, and understand how you can enhance marketing activities using campaigns. You will be able to take your administration skills to the next level as you approach real-world user management topics such as ownership skew. You will learn about data security on the Salesforce platform, with an introduction to the role hierarchy, system and user permissions, and much more. In this new edition you'll get to explore the popular automation tool Salesforce Flow. You’ll learn about the different flow types to employ, how to construct your first flow, and how to extensively test your flow. This will allow you to come away from reading this book with a real, functional flow for your business processes.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Assessment
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Business use case

Now that we have built the approval process, let’s test it out to see if it meets our business requirements. As a recap, the sales manager wants all closed sales that are $200,000 or higher and are in the negotiation/review stage to be submitted to them for final approval. Once the deal has been approved, the opportunity stage should automatically update to Closed Won. Let’s see how this works:

  1. Navigate to the Burlington Textiles Weaving Plant Generator opportunity:

    Figure 17.12: Opportunity with the amount and stage sections highlighted

    Here, we can see that this opportunity has an amount that is greater than $200,000 and is in the Negotiation/Review stage, so it meets the criteria for being submitted for approval.

  1. From the dropdown arrow in the upper-right corner, we can access and click on the Submit for Approval button. The following popup will appear:
Graphical user interface, application  Description automatically generated

Figure 17.13: Popup when submitting...

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