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Map Your Care and Salesforce Fields

Before you can use the Care module to create cases, contact, and leads in Salesforce, map the fields between the two environments.

When you map Care and Salesforce fields, you map them for all users in your Emplifi account.

Prerequisites

Before you can start mapping Care and Salesforce fields, ensure that you:

Record types in Salesforce

The record type is the way the fields are organized in Salesforce.

Care allows you to map and display a selection of Salesforce record types (such as Contact, Case, Lead, and so on). This enables you to create Salesforce cases, contacts, and leads directly from Care.

Field types

Select what Care fields you want to map to your Salesforce fields.

  • Visibility of the fields is determined by the Salesforce and Emplifi user who granted the token to Emplifi-Salesforce integration (see Integrate Care with Salesforce). Anything that this user sees and has access to is available in the mapping options.

  • Not all Salesforce fields accept all types of Emplifi data. Some Salesforce fields may accept only one type of Emplifi data (dynamic, internal, or variable).

Dynamic data

Fields with dynamic data in Care are mapped to the corresponding text fields in Salesforce (for example, time, the author of the message, and so on). The data is dynamic in the sense that the value changes based on the particular case.

Dynamic data is automatically exported from a Care case that you turn into a Salesforce case, contact, or lead.

Example:
Examples of the dynamic data fields would be a user name, timestamp, URL, or any custom text field (such as strings, numbers, and so on).

In the following picture, the text field Subject in Salesforce is mapped to the dynamic data field Brand name in Care, and the value changes based on what is in the Care case:

Dynamic_data_example.png

Internal data

Fields with internal data in Care are mapped to the corresponding text fields in Salesforce.

Internal data is automatically exported from the Emplifi account’s metadata.

The following Care fields contain internal data:

  • Time of escalation

  • Agent name

  • Agent email

Example:
In the following picture, the text field Name in Salesforce is mapped to the internal data field Agent name in Care:

Internal_data_example.png

Variable data

Fields with variable data in Care are predefined with several options, and you specify which option will be mapped to text, picklist, or multi-select picklist fields in Salesforce. You can think of the variable data fields as giving more granular control over mapping.

Variable data is automatically exported from a Care case that you turn into a Salesforce case.

Example:
Examples of the variable data fields would be a language, sentiment, priority, or any custom field that allows for selecting a single value or multiple values.

In the following picture, the picklist field Priority in Salesforce is mapped to the variable data field Platform in Care. The variability of the Priority field is represented by three predefined values: High, Medium, and Low.
Two values of the Platform field (Facebook and Instagram) are mapped to the High value of the Priority field, LinkedIn is mapped to Medium, and Pinterest is mapped to Low:

Variable_data_example.png

Map your Care and Salesforce fields

Steps:

  1. Go to Settings -> Integrations & API -> Salesforce.
    The list of connected Salesforce accounts is displayed.

  2. Select the Salesforce account where you want to map the fields.

  3. Click the Mapping with Care tab.
    The list of the record types that are available in your Salesforce account appears.

  4. Click the record type that you want to map.

    Record_types.png

    The mapping editor appears.

  5. Map your Care and Salesforce fields.

    Map_Care_Salesforce_fields.png

    Be aware of the following:

    • (warning) Not all Salesforce fields accept all types of Emplifi data. Some Salesforce fields may accept only one type of Emplifi data (dynamic, internal, or variable). The data that cannot be accepted are disabled and grayed out.

    • (info) The fields to be mapped are determined by:

      • Your Emplifi and Salesforce respective setups

      • Your Salesforce permissions to see individual fields

    • (info) Instead of mapping to Emplifi data, you can map a Salesforce field to a static custom value.

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    • (tick) If you want to be able to identify who escalated a Care case to Salesforce, map some of the fields in the Salesforce record type for the Case object to the Agent name and/or Agent email Emplifi fields (see “Associate a case in Salesforce with the user who escalated the Care case” further in this article).

    • (tick) If you want to have the contact fields pre-populated with the data from a Care case when creating a Salesforce contact from that case (see Link Care and Salesforce Contacts), map fields in the Salesforce record type for the Contact object to the case fields (the default ones like language, sentiment, priority, and platform as well as those that you set up for Care cases (see Create Case Fields in Care)).

  6. Once done, click Save.
    The Care and Salesforce fields are mapped.

To test the mapping, you can create a trial Salesforce case in Care (see Create a Salesforce Case or Lead from Care).

Associate a case in Salesforce with the user who escalated the Care case

By default, Care-Salesforce integration is based on a single user’s token (the default token; see Integrate Care with Salesforce). All cases created in Salesforce as escalations from Care are associated with this token regardless of who actually initiated the escalation in Care.

If you want to associate a case in Salesforce with the user who initiated the escalation in Care, map the Agent name and/or Agent email Care fields to some of the fields in the Salesforce record type for the Case object. The Agent name and/or Agent email fields are filled in with the Emplifi internal data.

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When a user escalates a case from Care to Salesforce, the mapped Salesforce fields will be filled in with the Emplifi user’s name and/or email, and you will be able to identify who escalated the Care case.

You can also ask the Care users who have personal Salesforce credentials to connect to the Salesforce account in Emplifi. When a connected user escalates a case from Care to Salesforce, the Salesforce case will be created under this user’s Salesforce token and will be associated with this user in Salesforce. For more information, see Integrate Care with Salesforce.

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