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Akhilesh Prajapati a posé une question dans #Salesforce Admin

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We recently experienced an Email-to-Case outage where a mailbox forwarding configuration was updated for a Sandbox request, but the forwarding rule was actually tied to the active Production Email-to-Case process. This unintentionally disrupted Production email routing and prevented incoming emails from being automatically converted into Salesforce Cases until the routing configuration was restored.

As part of our ongoing Email-to-Case enhancement and Hyperforce migration efforts, we would like to understand what contingency options are available to ensure business continuity if email routing or forwarding configurations fail in the future.

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Looking for recommendations and best practices from the community on:

  • What backup or failover mechanisms can be implemented for Email-to-Case?
  • How can we ensure inbound emails continue to flow into Salesforce if mailbox forwarding fails or is misconfigured?
  • Are there monitoring, alerting, or health-check approaches that can proactively identify Email-to-Case routing issues before business users are impacted?
  • Has anyone implemented secondary routing addresses, backup mailboxes, middleware, or other resilient architectures for Email-to-Case?
  • Any lessons learned or best practices for Hyperforce migrations and Email-to-Case resilience?

We would appreciate insights from teams that have implemented a robust Email-to-Case recovery or failover strategy to minimize service disruption. 

 

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  1. Hier, à 10:16

    Hi @Forent Thomas

    , 

    So the scheduled mail, how did you implemented for every day to be sent, as this can't be done as manual.

Agents have FLS for most fields on opportunity and we have something called SA1 records. Those are the records owned by 'System Admin 1' user. Agents can access those records from a related list. But we wanna restrict them to search for Opportunities with just email or phone. They should not be able to find say opportunities in a particular state or address from global search.

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  1. 10 oct., 12:25

    Global search looks through all the fields a user can see, so there is no setting to limit it to just email and phone. If agents do not need to see state or address at all, remove read access to those fields in field-level security and they will stop appearing in search. If agents need to see those fields on the record but you only want search by email or phone, you would need a custom search screen instead of global search. A simple option is a list view with filters on email and phone that agents use instead of the top search bar.

Akhilesh Prajapati a posé une question dans #Salesforce Admin

Context

We recently faced an issue where changes made to an email forwarding setup unintentionally impacted the Production Email-to-Case process. As a result, incoming emails stopped creating cases in Salesforce until the configuration was corrected. 

 

Questions

  • What backup options are available if Email-to-Case stops working?
  • How can we ensure emails still create cases in Salesforce during such outages?
  • Are there any monitoring or alerting mechanisms to detect issues early?
  • Has anyone implemented a failover or secondary routing solution for Email-to-Case?

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  1. 26 oct., 16:49

     Hi @Akhilesh Prajapati

    To improve Email-to-Case reliability and minimize the impact of routing failures, I would recommend the following approach:

    1. Maintain an email backup: Configure your email server to retain a copy of every incoming support email in the original mailbox or a dedicated backup folder before forwarding it to Salesforce.
    2. Configure a secondary routing option: Maintain a separate backup support mailbox or alternate intake channel. If the primary forwarding configuration fails, your email administrator can redirect incoming emails to the backup route. Test this setup carefully to avoid duplicate cases.
    3. Monitor processing failures: Configure the Automated Case User's email address to deliver Salesforce Email-to-Case error notifications to a monitored internal mailbox or distribution group.
    4. Enable error notifications: In Setup, navigate to Feature Settings → Service → Email-to-Case and review the option to notify senders about processing errors.
    5. Test the Salesforce routing address directly: Send a test email to the generated Email Services Address. If a case is created, investigate the external email forwarding configuration. If no case is created, check the Automated Case User's permissions, record types, validation rules, Apex triggers, and Flow automation.
    6. Implement monitoring: Use email-platform monitoring to alert administrators when forwarding rules change or message delivery fails. You can also periodically send test emails and verify that corresponding cases are created.
    7. Establish a recovery procedure: During an outage, preserve affected emails and create or resubmit cases after the issue is resolved. Before replaying messages, check whether a case already exists to avoid duplicates.

    Salesforce documentation:

    For a production environment, I would prioritize retaining inbound emails, monitoring processing errors, and documenting a tested recovery procedure before implementing a more complex failover solution.

    I hope this helps! If you find this answer helpful, please select it as the Best Answer. 

     

    Thanks, 

    Deepak Sachdeva 

    Nubys Technology Pvt. Ltd.

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Hi everyone,

Has anyone looked into restricting access to the new Help Agent within Salesforce? The "?" icon in the top right utility menu which now brings a chat with Agentforce.  

 

I can see it’s available in our org, but I can’t find a way to control access by Profile or Permission Set. Ideally, I'd like it to be available only to System Administrators. I've looked into the documentation but nothing about access is discussed. 

 

Has anyone managed to limit who can see or use it, or is it currently available to all users by default?

Thanks! 

 

Salesforce Help

 

 

 

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Looking for suggestions on how to deal with Address Management in NPSP. Specifically, around mass updating addresses. We got an updated list from NCOA and I am trying to determine the best way to add/verify the new addresses.  In some spot checking, we do already have the address that NCOA gave us, but it's not the default address anymore, at least in our SF. So I would not want to "add" a duplicate address.  So I am wondering what others do?  I mean there has got to be a way. Any upload tools out there that would help with this?  I have XL-Connector and I know I could export and do some vlookup's, etc to help, but I just looking for any short cuts to help, beside manually reviewing all of the records 

 

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  1. 5 oct., 11:55

    Address management becomes rather awkward once historical addresses enter the picture. Checking existing Address records against the latest data should come before creating anything new. A matching process using Contact and Address IDs could make the cleanup considerably easier. NCOA data can then be applied with fewer surprises. Otherwise, duplicate addresses have a remarkable talent for multiplying.

Akhilesh Prajapati a posé une question dans #Salesforce Developer

 

Account Engagement User Management Page Continuously Loading (Spinner) - Unable to Assign Administrator Access

 

Customer is unable to access

Account Engagement Settings → User Management → Users. The page remains stuck on a loading spinner and never loads, preventing user management and assignment of additional Administrator access.

Impact: Unable to view/manage users.

Request:

Please help on the continuous loading issue on the Users page and advise on any permission, configuration, or backend errors causing the behavior. Screenshot attached for reference. 

 

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  1. 26 sept., 15:22

    Hi @Akhilesh Prajapati

    This is Account Engagement (Pardot) territory. The infinite spinner on 

    Account Engagement Settings → User Management → Users is a known symptom pattern, almost always tracing back to the Salesforce↔Pardot connector/session layer rather than an actual "Users" bug. I checked the linked community thread it has 0 replies, so no prior resolution to build on there.

    Here's the diagnostic order I'd work through, most-likely-cause first:

    1. Check Connector authentication statusGo to Account Engagement Settings → Connectors and check the Salesforce connector's status. If it shows an auth error (commonly surfaces as Pardot API Error 184 authentication failure), that alone is enough to hang User Management, since that page pulls live data through the connector session. Reauthenticate the connector user if it's broken.
    2. Confirm the connector user still has correct accessThe user account the Salesforce Pardot connector runs as needs an active Salesforce license, System Administrator (or equivalent) profile, and the Account Engagement Administrator role in Pardot. If that user was deactivated, had their profile changed, or lost the Pardot role assignment, the connector silently fails and pages like this spin forever instead of erroring cleanly.
    3. Rule out browser-side blocking (very common cause)Account Engagement Settings loads inside a Salesforce Canvas app (an iframe calling out to Pardot's API). Third party cookie blocking (Safari/Chrome privacy settings), ad blockers, or browser extensions frequently break this silently. Test in an incognito/private window with extensions disabled, and try a different browser entirely before assuming it's a config issue.
    4. Check Session Settings for Clickjack Protection / IP restrictionsIn Salesforce Setup → Session Settings, aggressive Clickjack Protection settings or 'Lock sessions to the IP address from which they originated' can block the Canvas iframe from completing its callout. Also check Login IP Ranges on the connector user's profile if Pardot's servers aren't whitelisted, the callout can hang rather than fail visibly.
    5. Check for multiple Business UnitsIf this org has more than one Account Engagement Business Unit, User Management can hang if the specific Business Unit context is ambiguous or misconfigured for the logged-in user. Confirm which Business Unit the affected admin is scoped to, and that their Salesforce profile maps correctly to it under Business Unit Setup.
    6. Escalate to Salesforce Support with the network traceIf all of the above check out, open a case with Salesforce Support (this is a Pardot/Account Engagement product issue, not something fixable via Apex/Flow/config alone). Capture a browser dev-tools Network tab trace of the failed page load first the failing XHR call to Pardot's API will usually show the real error code even though the UI just shows a spinner.

    Quickest first move: step 1 (Connectors auth status) and step 3 (incognito/different browser) these two catch the majority of real-world cases of this exact symptom. If the connector shows green/authenticated and it still hangs in a clean browser, jump to step 4 (Session Settings) before assuming it needs a Support case.

     

    I hope you find the above information helpful. If it does, Please mark it as Best Answer to help others too.

Hello.  

We have a field Work_Type__c picklist field on the Milestone object that references a Picklist value set. We want to instead add picklist values manually. Is this conversion possible or do I have to create a new pick list field and then add my picklist values manually? 

 

Thank you, 

Nancy  

 

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  1. Forum Ambassador Jeff Weller (PARQA Inc.)
    9 sept., 06:59

    Hi Nancy, 

    No, you can't convert it  — Salesforce doesn't provide a button/toggle in Setup to switch a picklist from "uses a Global Value Set" to "enter values manually"

    (or vice versa) for an existing field. 

     

    Go to Setup → Object Manager → Your Object → Fields & Relationships → Your Field 

    Click Edit 

    You'll see the picklist is tied to a Global Value Set — there is

    no option

    here to detach it and switch to manual values. This choice is locked in at field creation and isn't editable afterward. 

    Hi Nancy, No, you can't convert it — Salesforce doesn't provide a button/toggle in Setup to switch a picklist from

     

     

Hello.  

We have turned on Account Plans in our Sandbox environment. For the Relationship Map we would like to somehow show a parallel org chart. For example. The CEO of Google and the CEO of our company Syska Hennessy Group. Is this possible?  

 

It seems that the native Salesforce Account plans is limited regarding customization.  

Please let me know if further information is needed.  

 

Is there another account plans tool that is recommended that offers more flexibility to make customizations? 

 

Thank you,  

Nancy 

 

 

 

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  1. 8 sept., 12:10

    @Nancy MagalhaesOne limitation I’d consider is the underlying data model: the native Relationship Map is primarily account/contact relationship-focused, so a true side-by-side “customer org + our internal org” hierarchy is difficult to maintain dynamically.

    If this is a recurring sales use case, I’d model the internal stakeholders and customer contacts as related records with an explicit relationship type (Decision Maker, Executive Sponsor, Account Owner, etc.), then surface those relationships through a custom LWC. That would keep the visualization data-driven instead of relying on manually added cards, while still keeping everything inside Salesforce.

Hello.  

 

Are there any trailhead recommendations that I can take for Einstein Activity Capture.  

I am looking to get this turned on for our firm.  

 

 We use Outlook.  

 

Thank you, 

Nancy 

 

 

 

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