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I'm setting up Service Plans on Cases. I'd like the Service Assistant to explain the customer's issue to the service rep somewhere in the Service Plan using a specific statement I supply.  

I put the statement into the Service Assistant's subagent's Scope (see below), but the agent won't say the statement anywhere in the Service Plan.  

"Your job is to assist service reps in identifying the reasons behind customer's hairdryers not turning on and providing the necessary steps to get the hairdryer to turn on.  

You must tell the service rep the following statement in the service plan, "When a hairdryer doesn't turn on the hair will remain wet." 

Similarly, I've added Instruction, "Review helpful guides, "How To Turn on Your Hairdryer" and "My Hairdryer Won't Turn On," but the agent won't say it either. 

Is this not possible? 

Track Service Rep First Response Time Automatically  A feature in Summer '26 is the above new metric which was designed to "Eliminate complex workarounds, uphold customer satisfaction KPIs, and ensure SLA compliance with a new metric that captures the exact moment a service rep sends their first reply in a messaging session. Service Rep First Response Time is now a value on the MessagingSessionMetricType field of the MessagingSessionMetrics object. Previously, identifying the actual moment a rep sent their first message required complex LWC development or API callouts to the ConversationEntry object."      However, testing of this appears to show the figure measures the time from the Messaging Session being created, to the moment a human agent first replies - so this includes the customer's initial interactions with the bot, customer inactivity time, time sat in the queue etc.  Should it not be the time difference between the first message minus the time it was assigned to the agent, to measure the individual Service Rep's service, similar to the other metrics?   Alternatively would a better design not have been to simply capture the date/time of the first human message and then we could have used formula fields to calculate the two metrics using the existing created, assigned and accepted date/time fields in Omni (1. total wait time to speak to a human & 2. how long the human took to send a message after accepting the MS).      In short, is there an easy way to derive how long a human took to send a message after accepting a MS, as this is what we were hoping "Service Rep First Response Time" metric would show us but it doesn't.    @* Service Cloud * 

I’m currently setting up Email-to-Case, but I’ve hit a hard roadblock with our institutional IT policies. Our IT department enforces a strict, global block on auto-forwarding emails to external addresses for security reasons.   

Since the standard out-of-the-box Email-to-Case fundamentally relies on that forwarding rule, I need an alternative way to get our support inbox flowing into Salesforce.

For those of you in higher ed who have faced similar strict policies:   

1. What alternative architecture did you use? Did you leverage Power Automate/middleware, an AppExchange tool, or something else to "pull" the emails via API?
2. If you did successfully get an exception from IT, how did you frame the request to get them comfortable with the setup?

Any insights or specific tool recommendations would be hugely appreciated!   

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Hi Trailblazers! We're excited to share the the Summer ‘26 Release Overview Deck! For those of you who are new to this asset, it's a visual companion to the Release Notes and walks you through many of the newest enhancements. Use the quick links to jump through the deck to review new features and functionality for various clouds. 

• Google Slides version
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We are migrating our Zoho Servicedesk to Service Cloud and looking for assistance with the data migration, specifically for case and emails associated to those cases. Is there anyone out there with recommendations of a vendor to use?

Hello Salesforce Team,

I have a question regarding the EmailMessage object relationships.

How can we reliably determine if an EmailMessage is linked to a Case?

I noticed there are two fields:

• RelatedToId (“Related To”)
• ParentId (“Parent Case”)

I would like to understand the expected behavior between these two fields:

1. Can RelatedToId be populated while ParentId is empty?
2. Can ParentId be populated while RelatedToId is empty?
3. When an EmailMessage is linked to a Case, should both fields always contain the same Case Id?
4. Are there standard scenarios where the values differ?

From the documentation, I saw the note:  “RelatedToId and ParentId should have the same value when ParentId is set. You might see unexpected results otherwise.”

Could you clarify the standard Salesforce behavior and best practice to identify whether an email is associated with a Case?

Thank you.   

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Hi everyone,

I need to implement a workflow for the following requirement:

1. Inbound: Clients email their dedicated Account Managers directly to their personal corporate inboxes (no generic support inbox).
2. Creation: The manager needs to convert that email into a Case under their ownership, including all attachments.
3. Lifecycle: Once created, the manager handles the entire thread from Salesforce. Replies must go out from their individual email, and client replies must route back to the same Case automatically.

Our first thought was using Email-to-Case, but since emails go to individual AM inboxes, creating unique routing addresses for dozens of managers is not scalable and feels like trying to force the system (adding/removing addresses every time an AM joins or leaves is a maintenance nightmare).  

Based on your experience, what is the best architectural approach for this? 

It feels like a fairly common business workflow. 

Thank you!

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