Case Managment
Send Email From A Case Feed
Design
As a Salesforce User
I want to send an email from a Case Feed from a shared email address
So that I can respond to customer inquiries from a shared email address and see there responses in the Case Feed
Given I click on the Send Email button in the Case Feed
When the shared email address is selected
Then I can send an email from the shared email address
External Inputs
Email Addresses for sending emails from Salesforce to customers/clients
Summary: To send emails from a case feed and have the responses recorded and visible on the case in Salesforce a shared/common email address is required. Only one is required but multiple can be added.
Example email addresses:
Build
Enable email-to-case and add send email button to the Case Feed
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Update Email-to-Case settings as below
Setup > Feature Settings > Service > Email-to-Case
Enable Email-to-Case: True
Notify Case Owners: True
Enable HTML Email: True
Set case source to email: False
Save Email-to-Case attachments as Salesforce files: True
Invoke triggers on status change from New to Read: False
Reply with new content only: FalseSend emails via external services: False
Send emails via external services: False
Insert thread ID in the email body: True
Place user signatures before email threads: True
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Add Send Email button to the Case Feed
Setup > Object Manager > Case > Page Layouts
The Case.SendEmail Button is only avalable after the Email-to-Case is enabled. The label is 'Email' and the Name is 'Case.SendEmail', there is a similar quick action with the same label but a differnet name 'SendEmail'.
Add the Send Email button to the Case Feed Layout
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Add Organization-Wide Email Addresses to be set as default
Setup > Email > Organization-Wide Addresses > Add
Create a new Organization-Wide Email Address to be used as ddefault such as:
Default Organization-Wide Email Addresses: **
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Add default from address to quick action
Setup > Object Manager > Case > Buttons, Links, and Actions
Click on the 'SendEmail' quick action and add a new predefiend field value
Field Name: From
Specific Value: select email setup in tyhe previous step⚠️There are two simialr specific values, ensure you selct the 'From' value and not the 'From Address'
Test
Steps
- Open a Case record
- Add a contact to the Case that has your email address
- Click on the Send Email button in the Case Feed
- The shared email address should be selected by default
- Eneter a subject and message
- Click Send
Expected Results
- expected reuslt 1...
- expected reuslt 2...
Common
As a Salesforce End User
I want to create Salesforce Cases manually
So that Phone calls can be recorded as Cases