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How can I create assignment rule on Account, Contact and opportunities objects?

I want to create assignment rule on standard objects (Account/contact/opportunity) I couldn't find, is it not possible to create assignment rule on Account/contact/opportunity objects ?

My Scenario - When the Account/contact/opportunity record Industry field value changed from "Agriculture" to "Electronics", the business wants the record owner to be automatically assigned from "AAA" to "BBB".

How can i achieve this scenario?

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Depending on the underlying need for your question, Territory Management may work for your use case. If you're interested, consider setting up Territory Management in a Sandbox to see how it works, and check out the documentation. – sfdcfox ♦ Commented Jun 19, 2020 at 5:03

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Assignment Rules are supported on the Lead and Case objects.

Assignment rules automate your organization’s lead generation and support processes. Use lead assignment rules to specify how leads are assigned to users or queues. Use case assignment rules to determine how cases are assigned to users or put into queues.

You can use either declarative or programmatic automation for this purpose on other objects, but you cannot use Assignment Rules.

which programmatic automation process I can easily accomplish for these objects? – Sfmcprgmr Commented Jun 19, 2020 at 4:59
Programmatic automation means Apex triggers. If you don't want to write Apex, pick a business process automation feature . – David Reed Commented Jun 19, 2020 at 5:02

This kind of use-case can be achieved with AppExchange apps such as SuperRoundRobin:

https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000FR4MkUAL

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I confess: I love Salesforce Lead Assignment Rules almost as much as I love the Approval Process . A good set of Lead Assignment Rules will buy you endless friends in both sales and marketing, and will make your incoming data sparkle and look perfect (even if it is not!) In this guide, I’ll be talking about the initial Lead sort, upon creation.

Salesforce Lead Assignment Rule Example

Criteria #1: If State = California, assign to Stacy
Criteria #2: If Country = United Kingdom, assign to Ben
Criteria #3: If Country = France, assign to Lucy
Criteria #4: If Annual Revenue is greater than $500,000,000 USD, assign to “High Roller Queue”

Planning Lead Assignment Rules

Discovery: questions to ask.

Where are the new Leads coming from? Marketo? HubSpot? Other integrated systems? Web forms? Are there any examples you look at? Make friends with the people who run these systems, you need to have a good relationship because you’re going to need their help.
What fields are populated on these newly created Leads? What fields are required? If it’s minimal, can you get more information? Generally, the more information you have, the easier it is to sort.
What if a Lead comes in from one of your Partners? What if a Lead comes in from one of your competitors? From one of your employees? Are there any kinds of Leads that should never be distributed out to your team, like students or media inquiries? (Remember – ANYONE with access to the internet can fill out your form! They do not have to be a legitimate prospect!)
Who is covering what territories? Do you have any territories that don’t have a sales rep yet? Do all new Leads have enough data to determine territories?
What about the Leads that don’t meet any criteria at all? Where will they go? Who will work them?

Refining the requirements

Our new Leads, almost always, come from Marketo . They could come from a Marketo form, or a list imported from a trade show, but Marketo is the system that pushes them to Salesforce. If a person creates their own Lead, we do not want to take it away from them.
We always have: first name, last name, lead source, email, company, state and country. We sometimes have # of Employees, but that’s pretty much all we know about them at the moment of creation.
Any Lead that comes in from a Partner should be directed to our channel team. We don’t want to market to competitors, employees, or students.
We have a territory plan defined by Sales, and we’d also like to separate prospects for the UK and France, though we do not have a sales rep for those areas yet.
If something comes in that we cannot otherwise sort, let’s put it in a holding place and let marketing send out generic nurture emails. If a person in this holding place takes interest, we can always give it to the sales team later.

	Western US	Eastern US + Canada	UK + France
# of Employees	Maeve Easton	To Be Determined
# of Employees >=5,000	Jessica Harris	Dylan Wolfe	To Be Determined

Partners (any Lead that comes in from a Partner company)
Disqualified (any Lead that comes in from a competitor, is an employee, or is a student)
UK + France (any Lead where Country = United Kingdom, or France)
Unsorted (any Lead that does not meet any criteria)

Creating Lead Assignment Criteria

Leads that shouldn’t be distributed, next criteria.

The Final Empty Criteria

Activate the Lead Assignment Rules

Leads can only be sorted by a field value at the moment it was sorted.
The Lead Router does not auto-convert Leads to Contacts
You cannot deactivate a User license if that person is part of the Lead Assignment Rules (even if the Lead Assignment Rules have been deactivated.)
Create a report for yourself, for that last criteria – Leads that are unsorted. This way you can review them periodically and see if there’s enough volume to justify sorting them in a certain way.

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How to Create Salesforce Assignment Rules: a Step-by-Step Guide

Salesforce is a strong and even irreplaceable tool when it comes to modern customer relationship management, customer service, and sales. Since it has an array of functionalities, one might feel overwhelmed by them. No worries!

Today we’d like to highlight one of the most important features for your marketing and service activities: Salesforce Case Assignment Rules and Salesforce Lead Assignment Rules. What is the difference between them? Keep reading.

Assignment Rules in Salesforce Explained

First things first, assignment rules are a great instrument to better organize your sales and support teams’ work. It’s also a perfect tool for improving your lead generation. As you already know, there are two types of assignment rules in Salesforce: Lead Assignment Rules and Case Assignment Rules. By using them, you can automate the process of assigning appropriate users or queues to Leads and Cases.

To better understand the Salesforce terminology, we’ll give you a short definition of what is a Lead and what is a Case in Salesforce:

Lead – this is a prospect, meaning that this is someone who is interested in your product or service, but not yet ready to buy.
Case – this is literally a customer’s question, complaint, or suggestion about your product or service.

How to locate Salesforce Lead Assignment Rules and Case Assignment Rules? Easy. First, go to the Setup tab in your organization. Start typing Assignment rules in the Quick Find box and there you are: you can view assignment rules under Marketing (Salesforce Lead Assignment Rules) and Service (Case Assignment Rules) tabs.

lead assignment rules and case assignment rules in Setup

With assignment rules, you can automatically deliver specific Cases to the right people in the team or departments who are specialized in a certain area (aka subject-matter experts), so that the customers receive timely and qualified responses. A Case Assignment Rule can assign cases without the connection to the case creation source. The thing is that a case can be submitted through a customer portal, a self-service portal, or by email, to name just a few options.

Plus, assignment rules in Salesforce also enable you to sort cases by priority according to the customer’s support package (Platinum, Silver, etc.).

The same thing applies to Lead Assignment Rules in Salesforce. By leveraging lead assignment criteria, you can specify how leads will be assigned to users or queues. They can do that regardless of whether leads are created manually or imported with the Data Import Wizard.

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Assignment Rules Limitation

You can’t build as many assignment rules as you see fit. There are certain limitations in Salesforce. For instance, there are limits for the number of rules, entries, and actions allowed by the rule.

Thus, there can be up to 2,000 total rules across objects (applies to any combination of workflow, assignment, auto-response, and escalation rules, active or inactive), 50 actives rules per object (applies to any combination of active workflow, assignment, auto-response, and escalation rules, as well as record change processes), 3,000 entries per rule, and 300 formula criteria entries per rule.

Besides, there is a limitation on actions when creating assignment rules in Salesforce – up to 200 actions allowed per rule. As for filter criteria, you can specify up to 25 per rule entry.

Creating Assignment Rules in Salesforce

Now that you know what assignment rules are for, we’ll show you how to set them up. After reading this paragraph, you’ll understand how to create a Case Queue, Case Assignment Rules, and Lead Assignment Rules in Salesforce. Spoiler alert: this is no sweat!

1. Case Queue in Salesforce Creation

What is a queue? It allows groups of users to manage a shared workload more effectively. A queue is basically a location where records can be transferred for processing by a group member.

Now, let’s get the ball rolling.

Navigate Setup in your Salesforce organization. Type “Queue” in the Quick Find box and then enter its Name and Label.

Leave the Queue Email field empty if you want the support employees included in the queue to receive emails when new cases are created or type the email addresses of the people who will receive this kind of notification.
Choose Case and add it to the Selected Objects column.

Choose members and add them to the Selected Members column. After everything is done, click Save.

2. Case Assignment Rule Creation

To create one Case Assignment Rule, acess Setup in your Salesforce organization. Type Assignment Rules in the Quick Find box and choose Case Assignment Rules. After that, click the New button and enter the Rule Name. Once you’re done, hit Save. Make sure you tick the Activate field to make your new assignment rule legitimate. Remember that this action will deactivate any other current Case Assignment Rule.

Click on the rule you just created. In the Rule Entries section, click the New button.

This is when all the magic starts. The Sort Order section defines the order in which entries will be processed. If you enter “1”, it means that this entry will be processed first.
Select the criteria for this rule entry. Here, you have several options: to run this rule if the criteria are met or if formula evaluates to true. In our case, I selected the criteria. This pretty much a standard Case Assignment Rule with such criteria as Case Number, Case Origin, and Case Reason.

After that, you can choose the User or a queue this rule entry will be assigned to. I will select a User.
Choose the Email Template this user will receive when the new case will be assigned to him. After that, hit the Save button.

Do not omit the testing phase – you need to clearly understand if everything is working correctly or you need to change assignment rules.

3. Lead Assignment Rule Creation

With Salesforce Lead Assignment Rules, the process is pretty much the same. Navigate to Setup in your Salesforce organization. As previously done, start typing Assignment Rules in the Quick Find box and select Lead Assignment Rules. Click the New button.
Specify the lead assignment rule name and do not forget to check the Activate box.
In the Rule Entries section, choose New. Here, you specify the order in which the rule entry will appear and define the criteria for the given rule entry. For this lead assignment, I will specify such criteria as Lead:City equals New York, Lead:Email contains examplecompany, and Lead: Lead Status equals Open – Not Contacted.

Next, we need to select a User or a queue for this lead assignment. Let it be Olesia Melnichenko.
After that, we also choose an email template and click Save.

Tips and Tricks for Creating Assignment Rules in Salesforce

Test your assignment rule in a sandbox before running it on your production org. This way, you can prevent yourself from glitches and inaccurate data.
Leverage custom formula fields to simplify complex assignment rules. This might be the case if you need to enlist the states by regions.
Set up round robin assignment rules for avoiding bottlenecks in your work routine. It means that the system will allocate each new case or lead to a different user or a queue until everyone has been assigned the same amount and the process repeats.
Consider a final rule entry with no criteria. This way, you can gather everything that didn’t match the criteria you define and assign it to a user or a queue.

Bottom Line

Hopefully, we managed to unscramble the assignment rules in Salesforce for you. They are the best for streamlining your business operations. Just imagine how sleek and error-free your work can be! Newly created leads and cases are assigned to an appropriate team member or queue, no chaos.

That is why you shouldn’t miss the benefits you can get from using assignment rules. Give them a try on your organization! In case you have any troubles, ask the Advanced Communities team . We can help you with everything from the Salesforce integration and configuration or further technical maintenance.

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Assignment rules are a powerful Salesforce feature that can help automate your organization’s lead generation and support processes. Assignment rules dictate to whom a lead or case is assigned based on criteria specified within Salesforce. Typically, your organization will have one rule for each overall purpose — like one lead assignment rule for importing leads and a different lead assignment rule for web-generated leads. Each rule can consist of multiple entries to specify precisely how leads or cases are assigned.

Rule Assignment Setup:

First, be sure you have the software’s group, professional, enterprise, unlimited, or developer edition. Other versions will not let you do this. Additionally, ensure you have permission to ‘customize the application.’ If you do not, speak to your Salesforce Admin before continuing.

1. Log in to your Salesforce Org and press Setup on the top proper Setup

2. Type “Assignment Rules” in the Setup search box and select “Leads Assignment Rules” or “Case Assignment Rules.”

3. Select a new entry for the Assignment Rule

4. Give the rule a name and specify if you want it active for leads or cases that are manually made and by those created automatically by web and email. Click save.

5. You should now create the rule criteria. Click on the rule you just created and click on “New” in the rule entries.

6. Enter an order for the rule and the rule that you want to specify for Lead or Cases. This rule can either be based on a “set of criteria” or a “formula.”

7. Select the user or queue to assign the Lead or Case Rule. You can use the magnifying glass to look up specific users or queues. Then press Save.

Criteria for Rules:

Order: This is the order in which the entry is processed, like a queue.
Criteria: These are various conditional criteria. You can use “criteria are met” or “formula evaluates to true.”
User: This specifies which user’s process queue to use.
Do not Reassign Owner: This determines if the user whose process stack is in use becomes the owner of the rule entity, or if it remains owned by its creator.
Email Template: This specifies email template settings if the rule triggers an email transmission to a prospect or a user within the group.
Some case definitions and team management settings can be customized, but they are pretty complicated and will be discussed in a future blog post.
After you specify all the rules you want to use for the entry, you can click “Save” or “Save & New” if you wish to keep, and then build more.

Assignment rules in Salesforce are quick to learn, and while easy to implement, they nonetheless bring powerful and flexible logic to an already robust CRM.

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Salesforce Assignment Rules Deep Dive

July 7, 2022

What Are Salesforce Assignment Rules

Assignment rules are a standard feature in Salesforce used to automate the assignment of leads and cases. They can be a great alternative to manually assigning records. However, there are more than a few limitations you’ll want to be aware of. In this article we’ll discuss the benefits and limitations of Salesforce assignment rules so you can decide if they make sense for your organization. We’ll also share advice and guidance on how to effectively configure assignment rules.

The Benefits of Assignment Rules

Salesforce assignment rules are a powerful tool designed to streamline the distribution and management of leads and cases within an organization. By automating the assignment process, these rules ensure that leads and cases are instantly assigned to the most appropriate team members based on specific criteria such as product interest, priority, and geographic location. This target approach helps to accelerate response times, balance workload, improve team performance, and increase customer satisfaction. The use of assignment rules in Salesforce, therefore, represents a strategic advantage for businesses looking to optimize their sales and support workflows, ultimately driving growth and customer loyalty.

Limitations of Assignment Rules

While Salesforce assignment rules offer significant advantages, they also have limitations that organizations should be aware of:

Limited to leads and cases : One of the most significant limitations of Salesforce assignment rules is the inability to assign standard or custom objects beyond leads and cases. This restriction often prompts organizations to look for an alternative solution that can assign any object .
Lack of round robin assignment : They do not support round robin assignment, which is essential for most modern sales and support teams. Instead, each rule assigns records to a specific user or queue you designate.
Lack of workload-based assignment : They don’t consider the existing workload of team members, potentially leading to an uneven distribution of leads and cases. This can result in slow response times and employee burnout.
Lack of availability-based assignment : They don’t consider the availability of team members, resulting in leads and cases being assigned to team members that are away from work or otherwise unavailable.
Difficult to maintain : Assignment rules can quickly become difficult to manage—even for small teams with simple assignment logic. Here’s an example of what a small portion of a typical assignment rule looks like:

Assignment rules can still be very useful despite these limitations. Continue reading to learn how assignment rules can be used to optimize your lead and case routing process.

How Assignment Rules Work

An assignment rule is a collection of conditional statements known as assignment rule entries. Each assignment rule entry contains one or more conditions and a user or queue to whom matching records will be assigned.

The Sort Order field can be used to change the order in which assignment rules are executed. Leads and cases will be evaluated against assignment rule entries in order and assigned by the first assignment rule entry that matches.

In the example above, we’ve prioritized our rules for Canada provinces (e.g. Ontario) higher than our country-wide Canada rule entry to ensure that leads from specific provinces don’t get assigned to the wrong person.

Next we’ll step you through how to actually create an assignment rule.

How to Create Assignment Rules

You’ll need the “Customize Application” permission in order to manage assignment rules. If you don’t have this permission, contact your Salesforce administrator.

Ready to create your first assignment rule? Follow these steps:

Login to Salesforce.
Navigate to Setup .
Search for “assignment rules” in Quick Find and click either Lead Assignment Rules or Case Assignment Rules .
Click New to create a new rule.
Name your rule and then click Save . We recommend leaving the Active box unchecked for now.

Now you’re ready to specify how leads or cases will be assigned.

Click on the rule you created.
Click New to create a rule entry.
Sort Order : this controls the order in which rules are executed.
Criteria : you can enter one or more filters to define which records should be assigned by this rule.
Owner : choose a user or queue to which records should be assigned. Alternatively you can check the Do Not Reassign Owner checkbox if this rule should not assign records.
(Optional) Select an email template for notifying users of assignments.
Click “ Save. ”
Repeat the above steps for any additional rule entries.

Activate Your Assignment Rule

You can follow these steps to activate your assignment rule:

Navigate to your assignment rule.
Click the Edit
Check the Active
Click Save .

Keep in mind that only one assignment rule can be active at a time. We’ll discuss how your active assignment rule can be used to assign records in the next section.

What Triggers Assignment Rules in Salesforce

There is often some confusion about how and when assignment rules run. There are a few different ways these rules can be triggered:

Creating a New Record : When a new lead or case is created, either manually or through an automated process, assignment rules can be triggered to assign the record to the appropriate user or queue.
Updating a Record : If a record is updated and meets certain criteria set in the assignment rules, this can also trigger the reassignment of the lead or case.
Web-to-Lead or Web-to-Case Submission : When leads or cases are generated through Salesforce’s web-to-lead or web-to-case features, assignment rules can automatically assign these incoming records.
Data Import : When importing data into Salesforce, you can opt to apply assignment rules to the imported records, ensuring they are assigned according to the established criteria.
API Creation or Update : Records created or updated via Salesforce’s API can also trigger assignment rules, depending on the configuration.
Manual Triggering : Users with the appropriate permissions can manually apply assignment rules to leads or cases, either individually or in bulk.

Understanding these triggers is essential to effectively utilizing assignment rules in Salesforce, ensuring that leads and cases are assigned to the right team members promptly and efficiently.

Tips and Tricks

It’s always a good idea to include a final rule entry with no conditions. This will be used to catch anything that didn’t match your rule criteria and assign it to a user or queue for review.
It’s also a good idea to include a rule entry that assigns junk (e.g. spam, test records, etc.) to a queue for review and deletion.
We recommend you test assignment rules in a sandbox before you add to your production org. However, keep in mind that assignment rules cannot be deployed from a sandbox to a production org.
Custom formula fields can help to simplify complex assignment rules. For example, rather than entering lengthy criteria (e.g. lists of states by region) you could create a formula field instead. This would reduce your criteria from “STATE/PROVINCE EQUALS IL,IN,IA,KS,MI,MN,MO,NE,ND,OH,SD,WI” to “REGION EQUALS Midwest”.
You can enable field history tracking on the owner field to track assignments made by your assignment rules.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to records that don’t meet salesforce assignment rule criteria.

These records will be assigned to whomever is designated as the default lead owner or case owner.

What are the different types of assignment rules in Salesforce?

Salesforce currently support lead and case assignment rules. Additionally, account assignment rules can be created as part of enterprise territory management.

What is the order of execution for assignment rules?

It’s important to understand exactly when assignment rules are run in relation to other events. For example, assignment rules are run after apex triggers and before workflow rules. See Salesforce’s Triggers and Order of Execution article for a comprehensive list of events and the order in which they’re executed.

How do you run assignment rules when creating or editing records using the REST API?

You can use the Sforce-Auto-Assign header when making REST API calls to control whether or not assignment rules run.

Salesforce assignment rules can be a valuables tool for many organizations. However, it’s important to understand the limitations. If you’re struggling with assignment rules it may be time to look at alternative solutions. Kubaru is a powerful automated assignment application for Salesforce. Check us out on the Salesforce AppExchange or contact us to schedule a demo.

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Assignment Rules In Salesforce

by Atul Gupta | Jun 1, 2021 | CV Newsletter

Assignment rules in Salesforce are basically used to automatically assign Case or Lead to the owner (Queue or User). This assignment rule is used to automate owner assignments on Lead and Case based on conditions on Case and Lead.

Types of Assignment Rule

There are two types of assignment rules .

Lead Assignment Rules
Case Assignment Rules

Lead Assignment Rule:

The Lead Assignment rule describes how leads are assigned to queues or users as they are created manually, imported via the Data Import Wizard, or captured from the web.

Case Assignment Rule:

In Case Assignment rule, it specifies how cases are assigned to users or queues as they are created manually, using On-Demand Email-to-Case, Email-to-Case, Web-to-Case, the Customer Portal and Outlook.

Create or Set-up assignment rules

From Setup, enter Assignment Rules in the Quick Find box, then select any one assignment rule either Lead Assignment Rule or Case Assignment Rule .
Click New , and then give the rule a name. If you want to make it active then check the active box then click Save .
To create the rule entries, click New . For each entry, you can specify:
Order: Set the order in which the entry will be processed in the rule, for example, 1, 2, 3. It matches the criteria of the entry according to the order. When a match is found, it processes the item.
Criteria : Here, write the condition so that when it meets with criteria it automatically assigns to queues or users on Lead/Case. Enter the rule criteria.
User : Choose here either users or queues to assign on Lead/Case.
Do Not Reassign Owner : It defines that the current owner on a case or lead will not be reassigned to the case or lead when it is updated.
Email Template : You can choose a template to use for the email that is automatically sent to the new owner of Lead/Case. No email will be sent if no template is specified. While assigning a lead or case to a queue, the notification goes to the Queue Email specified for the queue and all queue members.
Predefined Case Teams : It describes the predefined case team to add to a case when it matches the condition.
Replace any existing predefined case teams on the case : It describes that any existing predefined case teams on the case are replaced with the predefined case teams on the condition when a case matches the condition.

After this setup, click Save , or Save & New to save the entry and create more entries.

Assignment Rule Example:

Following is the Lead Assignment rule which assigns Lead to queues based on City, Company, and Industry.

Like this, you can create more rules for assigning a different Queue/User for different criteria.

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Understanding Assignment Rules: A Comprehensive Guide

Assignment rules are an important feature of Salesforce that help businesses automate assigning records to specific users or teams based on predefined criteria. This article will discuss assignment rules, how they work, and the benefits they provide to businesses.

What are Assignment Rules?

Assignment rules are a set of criteria that are defined by businesses to determine how records should be assigned to users or teams within the Salesforce system. These criteria can be based on several factors, such as the record type, location, record status, or the user's role or territory. For example, a company may set up an assignment rule to automatically assign a new lead to the sales rep who covers that particular region or product line.

How do Assignment Rules Work?

When a record is created or updated, the assignment rules evaluate the record based on predefined criteria. The assignment rule automatically assigns the record to the designated user or team if the criteria are met. Once the record is assigned, the user or team can work on the record.

Salesforce provides a simple wizard that enables administrators to set up assignment rules. The wizard allows administrators to define the criteria for the assignment, select the user or team to assign records to, and set up any needed notifications or escalations.

How to Set Up Assignment Rules in Salesforce

Setting up assignment rules in Salesforce is a straightforward process that requires the following steps:

Identify the criteria for record assignment - Before creating an assignment rule, businesses should first identify the criteria used to assign records. It might include the record type, location, user role, or other custom fields.

Create the assignment rule - Once the criteria have been identified, businesses can create the assignment rule in Salesforce. It involves setting up a rule that evaluates the criteria and assigns records to the appropriate user or team.

Test the assignment rule - After the assignment rule has been created, businesses should test it to ensure it is working correctly. It might involve creating test records and verifying that they are assigned to the correct user or team.

Activate the assignment rule - Testing it in Salesforce will allow it to be activated. It allows it to automatically assign records to the appropriate user or team.

Types of Assignment Rules in Salesforce

Salesforce offers two types of assignment rules: standard assignment rules and lead assignment rules.

Standard assignment rules assign records to users or teams based on predefined criteria. They can be set up for various record types, including leads, cases, and opportunities.

Lead assignment rules are specific assignment rules used to assign leads to sales reps. They evaluate the criteria for a lead, such as location or product interest, and assign the lead to the appropriate sales rep based on a round-robin or customized assignment method.

Benefits of Assignment Rules

There are several benefits to using assignment rules in Salesforce, including:

Increased Efficiency

One of the most significant benefits of assignment rules is their increased efficiency. By automating the process of assigning records, sales, and customer support teams can spend less time manually assigning leads and cases to the appropriate users or teams. They can focus on more important tasks, such as following up with leads, resolving customer issues, and closing deals.

With assignment rules, businesses can streamline their processes and reduce the time it takes to respond to customer inquiries, ultimately improving their overall efficiency and productivity.

Improved Customer Satisfaction

Another important benefit of assignment rules is the improved customer satisfaction they can provide. Businesses can automatically assign cases to the appropriate user or team to ensure that customer inquiries are handled promptly and efficiently. Customers receive faster responses to their inquiries, which can help improve their overall satisfaction with the company.

In addition, by assigning cases to users with the appropriate skills and knowledge, businesses can ensure that customer issues are resolved more effectively, further improving customer satisfaction.

Accurate Data

Assignment rules also help businesses maintain accurate data in their CRM system. By automating the process of assigning records, businesses can ensure that data is entered correctly and consistently. It means that reports and analytics generated from the data are more accurate and reliable, which can help businesses make more informed decisions.

In addition, businesses can use assignment rules to enforce data validation rules, which can help prevent incorrect data from being entered into the system.

Consistency

Another benefit of assignment rules is that they help ensure consistency in record assignments. By automating the process of assigning records, businesses can ensure that records are assigned to the appropriate user or team consistently. It reduces the risk of errors or omissions occurring when records are manually assigned.

In addition, by using assignment rules to enforce a standardized process for record assignment, businesses can ensure that records are handled consistently across different teams and regions.

Flexibility

Finally, assignment rules provide businesses with great flexibility in assigning records. Businesses can define complex rules based on various criteria, such as record type, location, or user role. Businesses can customize their assignment rules to fit their specific needs and workflows.

In addition, assignment rules can be updated or modified as needed, allowing businesses to adapt to changes in their business or industry.

Best Practices for Using Assignment Rules in Salesforce

Businesses should follow these best practices to ensure Salesforce assignment rules are working effectively:

Define clear assignment criteria: Before setting up assignment rules, businesses should define clear criteria for record assignments. It will help ensure that records are assigned accurately and consistently.

Test assignment rules before activation: Before activating assignment rules, businesses should test them to ensure that they are working correctly. It will help prevent errors and ensure that records are assigned to the appropriate user or team.

Monitor and adjust assignment rules: It is important to monitor them regularly to ensure they are working properly. Businesses should also be prepared to adjust assignment rules as needed to accommodate changes in their business or industry.

Communicate changes to users: When changes are made to assignment rules, businesses should communicate with them to ensure they are aware of any changes in their workload or responsibilities.

In conclusion, assignment rules are a powerful feature of Salesforce that helps businesses automate assigning records to specific users or teams. The benefits of assignment rules include increased efficiency, improved customer satisfaction, accurate data, and consistency.

By using assignment rules, businesses can streamline their processes, improve their overall effectiveness, and achieve their goals more efficiently.

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Create a case assignment rule, test the case assignment rule.

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Create Case Queues and Assignment Rules

Now that you have your basic support processes and layouts configured for cases, create case queues and assignment rules to route your cases to the correct support teams at Ursa Major Solar.

Create Product Support Tier 1 and Product Support Tier 2 queues so product support cases can be routed to one of these queues based on case criteria and how long the case has been open.

From Service Setup, enter Queues in the Quick Find box and select Queues .
Click New and complete the queue details.
Label: Product Support Tier 1
Queue email: [email protected]
Supported Objects: select Case and click Add .
Queue Members: Click User: (Your Name) in the Available Members list, and click Add to add yourself to the Selected Members list.
Click Save .
From the Queue page, click New and complete the queue details.
Label: Product Support Tier 2
Queue email: [email protected]

Now, create the Inquiry queue for inquiry cases.

From the Queues page, click New .
Enter the queue details.
Label: Inquiry
Queue Email: [email protected]
Queue Members: Click User: Ada Balewa in the Available Members list, and click Add to add her to the Selected Members list.

So, now you have case queues set up and ready to handle different types of cases as they’re created. Next, create and activate a standard case assignment rule to assign cases to the correct team members. This is how cases get sent to specific case queues, like the ones you just created.

From Service Setup, enter Case Assignment Rules in the Quick Find box and select Case Assignment Rules .
Click New and enter the rule details.
Rule Name: Standard Case Assignment
Select the Active checkbox to make this the active case assignment rule.

Add a rule entry that assigns Product Support cases to the Product Support Tier 1 queue.

Click the Standard Case Assignment link.

Field	Value
Sort order
Run this rule if the
Field
Operator
Value	(Tip: Click the lookup icon and select Product Support.)
User/Queue dropdown menu
Queue type	(Tip: Click the lookup icon and select Product Support Tier 1.)

Create and customize a Case Assignment Rule by entering the rule details.

Click Save & New .

Next, add a rule entry that assigns inquiry cases to the Inquiry queue.

Field	Value
Sort order
Run this rule if the
Field
Operator
Value	(Tip: Click the lookup icon and select Inquiry.)
User/Queue dropdown
Queue type	(Tip: Click the lookup icon and select Inquiry.)

Now rename the Automated Case User to System. Every time there’s an automated case change from an assignment rule, for example, the automated case user name will show up in the case history. It will now show an automated “system” change, rather than showing your name as the admin, whenever an automated case change occurs.

Enter Support Settings in the Quick Find box and select Support Settings .
Click Edit .

You want to make sure the assignment rules work for Ursa Major Solar by creating a case.

Click the Contacts tab.
Select Recently Viewed from the dropdown, and click the Pat Stumuller link.
In the Cases related list, click New .
Select a record type: Product Support .

Field	Value
Type
Case Reason
Product
Status
Case Origin
Subject
Description
Assign using active assignment rules	(if not already selected)

Click the Case Number for the case you just created. Ensure that the Case Owner is Product Support Tier 1.

By setting up case queues and assignment rules, cases are now automatically routed to the correct teams. Next, escalate higher priority cases to the Product Support Tier 2 team by creating an Escalation Rule.

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Guide to lead assignment rules in Salesforce

Use SFDC lead assignment rules to get more done, create a better experience, and close deals faster.

Rachel Burns Jul 24, 2023

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Guide to lead assignment rules in Salesforce

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What are Salesforce lead assignment rules?

What if your sales team could spend their valuable time connecting with prospects and closing deals — instead of losing time doing admin work like assigning and organizing leads?

When you automate lead assignment and routing, your sales team can:

Boost sales team productivity and efficiency

Prevent high-quality leads from slipping through the cracks

Create a better experience for potential customers

Speed up your entire sales pipeline to close more deals, faster

In this blog post, we'll discuss the ins and outs of Salesforce lead assignment. We'll cover the benefits, how to plan your lead assignment strategy, and a step-by-step walkthrough of adding lead assignment rules in Salesforce. We'll also explore the power of scheduling automation to simplify and speed up lead assignment, routing, and qualification.

Key takeaways:

Lead assignment rules help sales teams boost productivity, respond to leads faster, and make better data-driven decisions.

Matching leads with the right sales reps and teams creates a better customer experience by responding to leads faster and giving them personalized attention.

Before you set up your lead assignment rules, work with your sales, marketing, and RevOps teams to understand your lead generation processes and sales team structure.

Within Salesforce lead management settings, rule entries are the individual criteria and actions. A “lead assignment rule” refers to a set of rule entries.

Automating lead routing , qualification, and booking with Calendly helps your team be more efficient and organized while creating a better experience for prospective customers.

6 benefits of creating lead assignment rules in Salesforce

Why should your team take the time to set up lead assignment rules in Salesforce? Here are six great reasons:

Ensure leads are assigned to the right reps and teams: Lead assignment rules mean each incoming lead is directed to the salesperson or team who has the relevant expertise and skills to engage and convert that lead. Automated lead assignment also prevents leads from falling through the cracks by making sure each lead is assigned to a rep or team, rather than relying on manual assignment.

Respond to leads faster: With lead assignment rules, leads are automatically assigned to the right salesperson, reducing response time and increasing the chances of converting leads into customers .

Boost sales team productivity: Automating lead assignment reduces manual work for RevOps teams and sales managers. Lead assignment rules also help identify and prioritize leads more likely to convert, saving time and resources that would otherwise be wasted on pursuing poor-fit leads. These time savings let sales teams focus on nurturing leads and closing deals.

Create a better customer experience: Leads can be assigned to sales reps who have relevant industry or product expertise, understand their unique needs, and can provide personalized solutions. This tailored approach creates a better experience for leads, which results in more conversions and higher customer satisfaction.

Improve sales forecasting: With well-defined lead assignment rules, you can gather more accurate data on lead distribution and conversion rates. This data can be used for sales forecasting, data driven decision-making, and resource allocation.

How to create lead assignment rules in Salesforce

Step 1: build your lead assignment strategy.

Before you go into your Salesforce instance and set up lead assignment rules, you need to figure out what exactly those rules will be. The options are limitless — where should you start?

It’s time to bring RevOps, sales, and marketing together to answer some questions:

Lead sources: Where do leads come from? Do we use marketing forms through Salesforce web-to-lead forms or a third-party integration? Are we importing leads via the data import wizard?

Sales team structure: How is the sales team structured? Are different teams or individuals specialized in specific products, industries, use cases, or regions?

Lead data: What info do we request from new leads? Which standard and custom fields do we require?

Sales territories: How are sales territories defined? Are there specific regions, countries, or territories we should take into account for lead assignment?

Integrations : Do we have any third-party integrations with lead assignment or distribution features? Are we using those features?

Special circumstances: Are there any priority levels or tiers for leads that require special attention? For example, do we have a designated rep or queue for leads with complex needs and use cases?

Poor fits: What should we do with leads who don’t meet any of our criteria?

It’s a lot of information to gather and organize, but it’s important to learn as much as possible up front to cover every scenario and equip your sales team with accurate data. Putting this time and effort in now will pay off tenfold in productivity once your lead rules are in place!

Step 2: Set up lead assignment rules in Salesforce

You’re almost ready to enter your lead assignment rules in SFDC . First, let’s go over some terminology. We’ve been talking about lead assignment rules as individual directives: “If the lead matches X, then do Y.” Within Salesforce lead management settings, a “lead assignment rule” refers to a set of rule entries. Rule entries are the individual criteria and actions (“If X, then do Y”). An assignment rule can consist of up to 3,000 rule entries, and you can only have one active assignment rule at a time.

For example, a rule entry can assign all leads interested in a particular product to a queue of reps who are experts on that product. In Salesforce, a lead queue is essentially a bucket for unassigned leads, and you can choose which sales reps can pull leads from each queue.

Another rule entry can assign all leads from companies with over 5,000 employees to your top enterprise sales rep.

To create a lead assignment rule in Salesforce:

From Setup, enter “Assignment Rules” in the Quick Find box, then select Lead Assignment Rules.

Enter the rule name. (Example: 2023 Standard Lead Rules)

Select “Set this as the active lead assignment rule” to activate the rule immediately.

Click Save.

Click the name of the rule you just created.

Click New in the Rule Entries section.

Enter an order number that tells Salesforce when to run this rule entry in relation to other rule entries. For example, if you want this to be the first criteria Salesforce looks at when assigning a lead, enter number one.

Select the rule criteria. What attributes must the lead have before Salesforce applies the rule entry? You can use any standard or custom field in the lead record for your criteria. For example, you want to assign leads to your U.S.-based enterprise sales team, so the company size field must be equal to or greater than 5,000 and the country field must equal the United States. You can include up to 25 filter criteria.

Choose the user or queue to be the assignee if the lead meets the criteria. For example, assign to the U.S.-based enterprise sales team queue.

Optional: Choose an email template to use when notifying the new lead owner. After you set up your lead rules, you can also use Salesforce Flow automations to notify lead owners via other channels. For example, at Calendly, we integrate Salesforce with Slack, and a workflow automatically notifies sales reps via Slack when a lead is assigned to them.

Screenshot of the Rule Entry Edit screen in Salesforce. The criteria fields include Lead: Created By equals and Lead: Country equals United Kingdom, France. The selected queue is UK + France Leads.

Salesforce goes through the rule entries in order until it finds one that matches the lead's info, then routes the lead accordingly.

Let's say you have small business, mid-market, and enterprise sales team queues. Your first three rule entries would match company size to each of those three queues. If they don't have a company size listed, or the company size doesn't match any of the values in your rule entries, Salesforce will move on to the industry rule entries.

To make sure no leads fall through the cracks, you also need to set a default lead owner. If the assignment rules fail to locate an owner, or you don’t set up assignment rules, web-generated leads are assigned to the default lead owner.

To select a default lead owner:

From Setup, enter “Lead Settings” in the Quick Find box, then select Lead Settings and click Edit.

Define the Default Lead Owner. The Default Lead Owner can be a specific user or a queue.

Save your settings.

Salesforce lead assignment rule examples

As we mentioned earlier, your rule entries can include up to 25 filter criteria.

Simple rules include just one filter criteria:

By country or state/province: Route leads from specific states or countries to sales representatives who understand the regional market. You need this rule if your team uses sales territories to divide leads. For example, if the state/province equals Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington, assign the lead to the West Coast queue.

By language: Assign leads to sales reps who speak the same language.

By industry: Assign leads from different industries to salespeople who have experience working with those industries.

By company size: Assign leads based on the size of the company, assigning larger companies to a dedicated enterprise sales team.

Complex rules use two or more filter criteria. For example, you could route leads from specific states or provinces to salespeople based on their sales territory and the company size. If you have a particular rep (Bob) working enterprise leads on the West Coast, your filter criteria could say: If the state/province equals Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington, and the company size equals greater than 5,000, assign the lead to Bob.

These are just a few examples. Lead assignment rules can be customized to fit your team’s and customers’ needs. Review your strategy to choose the right combination of criteria for your sales processes, products, and customers.

What does the built-in Salesforce lead process look like in action?

A website visitor named Nora fills out a contact form to learn more about your product. She shares her name, email address, company name (Acme Inc.), and company size. You use Salesforce’s built-in web-to-lead forms , so Nora’s form submission automatically creates a lead record.

Your team has set up lead assignment rules that assign leads to sales queues based on their company size. Acme Inc. has 5,000 employees, so Nora is automatically assigned to the enterprise sales team queue.

Enterprise sales team queue members receive an email notification that a new lead has been added to the queue. Taylor, an enterprise sales rep in Acme Inc.’s territory, assigns Nora’s lead record to themself.

Taylor emails Nora to set up a qualification call.

Nora, who has been waiting to hear back from your team, agrees to meet with Taylor. After some email back-and-forth, they find a time that works.

What are the limitations of Salesforce’s built-in lead assignment rules?

Salesforce’s built-in lead assignment rules are a great place to start, but there are a few critical limitations, especially for enterprise sales teams:

Single level of evaluation: Salesforce assignment rules operate based on a single level of evaluation, meaning that once a rule matches the criteria and assigns a lead, the evaluation process stops. Your team might miss out on important info, like a complex use case or unique industry, when matching the lead with a rep.

No built-in round robin distribution: Round robin lead distribution is the process of assigning leads to reps based on factors like team member availability or equal distribution for a balanced workload. Salesforce lead assignment rules don't include an easy way to set up round robin distribution — you need an additional tool like Pardot, one of the round robin apps on AppExchange , complex Apex code , or a third-party lead routing platform .

No lead escalation settings: Lead escalation is the process of flagging a lead to higher levels of management or specialized teams for further assistance or action. This process comes into play when a lead requires additional attention or intervention beyond the assigned salesperson or team's capabilities. Unfortunately, Salesforce doesn’t have built-in settings for lead escalation rules. If your customer success team uses Service Cloud, you can set up escalation rules for customer support case escalations, but this feature isn’t included in Sales Cloud.

High maintenance for large organizations: Managing and maintaining a comprehensive set of assignment rules can become challenging and time-consuming in large organizations with complex sales structures and multiple teams or regions. Sure, you can include up to 3,000 rule entries in a single lead assignment rule, but that’s a lot to set up and keep up to date — especially if you’re trying to save your team time, not add to their workload.

Built-in Salesforce lead assignment rules and automations are a solid starting point, but what about automating lead qualification and booking? If you use Salesforce on its own, your reps might still spend a ton of time on lead reassignment to balance their workload, manual lead qualification, and email back-and-forths to schedule sales calls.

That’s where Calendly comes in.

How to automate lead assignment, qualification, and booking with Calendly

Your scheduling automation platform can be an excellent lead generation, qualification, and routing tool — especially when it integrates with Salesforce. Calendly’s Salesforce integration helps your team be more efficient and organized while creating a better experience for prospective customers.

When a lead books a meeting via a sales rep or team’s Calendly booking page, Salesforce automatically creates a new lead, contact, or opportunity. If the lead already exists in your Salesforce instance, the event is added to the lead’s existing record, so you don’t end up with duplicate lead records or time-consuming manual reassignment.

What if you don’t want to let just anyone book a meeting with your team? When you add Calendly Routing to your marketing forms, you can show scheduling pages only to leads who meet your qualifications, like prospects from specific industries or companies of a certain size. That way, your busy team can spend time on the most valuable deals.

Calendly Routing works with HubSpot , Marketo , Pardot , and Calendly forms and is built for your Salesforce CRM. You can use any form field (email, domain, company name) in any Salesforce standard object to match visitors with their account owner. Account lookups let you send known leads or customers from your website form directly to their account owner’s booking page, without needing to manually reassign leads to the right rep.

Screenshot showing Calendly integrates with Salesforce lookup to match and schedule leads and customers based on real-time CRM account ownership.

Remember the lead assignment example we walked through earlier featuring Nora from Acme Inc.? Here's what that process looks like when you add Calendly:

Nora fills out your “contact sales” form, which is already built in HubSpot, connected to Calendly Routing , and enriched with Clearbit .

She enters her email address in the form, and Clearbit fills in the company name, size, and industry. This shortens the form, so Nora only has to input her name and job title.

Calendly checks to see if Acme Inc. has an account in your Salesforce instance. They don’t, so the next step is lead qualification .

Based on Nora’s information — company size, industry, job title — she’s a highly qualified lead, so she’s automatically routed to the booking page for your enterprise sales team.

Nora is happy about that, and immediately books a meeting time that works for her, with the exact team she needs to talk to.

On the backend, Calendly’s Round Robin meeting distribution is set to optimize for availability, so it assigns the meeting to the first available sales rep — in this case, Taylor. This automation helps your team respond to meeting requests faster, hold initial sales calls sooner, and balance the workload across reps.

Calendly creates a lead record in Salesforce with the info Nora entered into your website form (including the data from Clearbit) and an activity log of any meetings she books with your team via Calendly. Salesforce automatically makes Taylor the lead owner.

If you were relying on Salesforce’s built-in lead assignment rules, Nora’s lead record would have gone to an enterprise sales queue, and she would have had to wait for a rep to pick up the lead and reach out to her to book a meeting.

“ A good tool is one that’s so simple, sales reps can basically forget about it and let the meetings roll in. That’s essentially what happened when we implemented Calendly. ”

Sales Enablement Manager at SignPost

What happens if a lead doesn’t qualify for a meeting? Instead of sending them to a booking page, you can display a custom message with next steps, ask them for more information, or redirect them to a specific URL, like a piece of gated content or a webinar signup page.

Screenshot showing Calendly’s built-in routing logic feature.

Automating lead assignment with Calendly Routing has been a game changer for RCReports , a compensation analysis solution for accountants and business valuators. Before connecting Calendly Routing with their Salesforce instance, RCReports’ AEs spent at least five hours a month reassigning leads booked on the wrong calendar. This created a disjointed customer experience and frustration for the sales and marketing teams.

“ Now that we’ve implemented Calendly’s routing feature with Salesforce integration, demos are always booked with the correct AE, reducing friction for both our team and the customer. ”

Abbie Deaver

Director of Marketing at RCReports

Users on Calendly’s Teams plan and above can connect Calendly to Salesforce. The full suite of Salesforce routing features , including routing by Salesforce ownership, is available on Calendly’s Enterprise plan.

To learn more about Calendly Routing, get in touch with our sales team .

Spend less time on manual lead assignment and more time closing deals

When you automate Salesforce lead assignment and routing, high-value leads stop slipping through the cracks, the workload is balanced across the team, leads are matched with the sales reps best equipped to help them, and team members have more time to focus on connecting with prospects and closing deals.

The results? A more productive team, faster sales cycle, higher conversion rates, and better customer experience.

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Create and manage Assignment rules in Salesforce

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Assignment rules are used to automate your organization’s lead generation and support processes .

Lead Assignment Rules – Specify how leads are assigned to users or queues as they are created manually, captured from the web, or imported via the lead import wizards.
Case Assignment Rules – Determine how cases are assigned to users or put into queues as they are created manually, using Web-to-Case, Email-to-Case, On-Demand Email-to-Case, the Self-Service portal, the Customer Portal, Outlook, or Lotus Notes.

Aim : All the cases created by user ‘jZaa’ should be assigned to ‘Jitendra Yahoo’.

To create this Assignment rule, go to Setup | App Setup | Cases | Assignment Rules and on right hand side click on New.

In first step, give the assignment rule name, lets say name is ‘to jitendra Yahoo’. You may have noted the check box which says “ Set this as the active case assignment rule ” click on this.

After creating rule, click on that rule and click on New.

Rule Entry for the Case Assignment in Salesforce

As you can see in above screen shot, at step 1 enter the order in which this rule should be run, as there may be multiple rules in assignment.

in step 2 we can choose criteria or formula. here i have choose the option to create formula.

In step 3, i have written the formula that if user alias is ‘JZaa’

In step 4, i have assigned the case to user “Jitendra Yahoo” if formula comes true

and in step 5, i have assigned the email template which should be sent after assignment.

The working example of above rule is shown in below screen shot:

As you can see in above figure, Case created by JZaa is automatically assigned to the “Jitendra Yah00” and those our assignment rule is working as expected.

Note : If there is no assignment rule then case is assigned to Creator itself.

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13 responses to “create and manage assignment rules in salesforce”.

Hi jitendhra,

I have created the assignment rule as u mentioned, I have given assignment rule name, user and email template. After creating as case owner is assigned to the user which is provided in assignment rule, but mail is not sending to case owner. Please advise

Hey, I was getting the same problem but it could not be solved so finally I moved toward workflow rule and its working fine..

There checkbox at bottom of page, which says Run active assignment rule. You need to check that

Hi jitendhra, I have created the assignment rule as u mentioned, I have given assignment rule name, user and email template. After creating as case owner is assigned to the queue which is provided in assignment rule, but mail is not sending to queue . Please advise

Are you using Sandbox ? Can you check your email logs if email is sent or not ? Check this article, which explains how to use email log – https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=email_logs_format.htm&language=en_US

Yes, I am using Sandbox..

I dont receive any email from Sandbox in my company email address and most of time endup using personal email like gmail for testing purpose.

So , you mean to say that I will only get mail when it will work in production and not in sandbox?? i think similar to escalation rules..correct?

It happens in my case because my Email server of my employer restricts email from Sandbox, I only receive system emails from Sandbox like password reset. I would suggest you to check it by providing your personal email

Ok.. But I verifed in email logs, there is no email which was sent on today’s date.. i think i am missing out on some configuration part.

Most Sandboxes have Deliverability set to System Email Only to prevent emails from sending out to clients and users when testing functionality. Check to see if this is the case and then change it to All Email temporarily if you actually want to get the email while testing – be careful not to email actual users/clients – recommended to switch it back to System Email Only when done testing the email piece.

Hi let me now assignment rule work on developer Edition I was trying but its not working my developer org.

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Assignment rules in Salesforce

By Ankush Dureja in salesforce

December 6, 2018

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What are assignment rules in salesforce ?

Assignment rules in salesforce are used to automatically assign lead or Case to owner( User Or Queue ). Assignment rule is used to automate owner assignment on Case and Lead based on conditions on Case or Lead. For example, there could on lead assignment rule for web-generated leads and one case assignment rule for the holiday use.

Types of assignment rules

There are two type of assignment rules

Lead Assignment Rules

Case assignment rules.

Specify how leads are assigned to users or queues as they are created manually, captured from the web, or imported via the Data Import Wizard.

Determine how cases are assigned to users or put into queues as they are created manually, using Web-to-Case, Email-to-Case, On-Demand Email-to-Case, the Self-Service portal, the Customer Portal, Outlook, or Lotus Notes.

Create or Setup assignment rules

From Setup, enter Assignment Rules in the Quick Find box, then select either Lead Assignment Rules or Case Assignment Rules .
Choose New , and then give the rule a name. Specify whether you want this to be the active rule for leads or cases created manually and via the web and email. Then click Save .
To create the rule entries, click New . For each entry, you can specify:
Order : Sets the order in which the entry will be processed in the rule, for example, 1, 2, 3. Salesforce evaluates each entry in order and tries to match the criteria of the entry. As soon as a match is found, Salesforce processes the item and stops evaluating the rule entries for that item. If no match is found, the item is reassigned to either the default Web-to-Lead owner, the administrator doing a lead import, or the default case owner.
Choose criteria are met and select the filter criteria that a record must meet to trigger the rule.For example, set a case filter to Priority equals High if you want case records with the Priority field marked High to trigger the rule. If your organization uses multiple languages, enter filter values in your organization’s default language. You can add up to 25 filter criteria, of up to 255 characters each. When you use picklists to specify filter criteria, the selected values are stored in the organization’s default language. If you edit or clone existing filter criteria, first set the Default Language on the Company Information page to the same language that was used to set the original filter criteria. Otherwise, the filter criteria may not be evaluated as expected.
Choose formula evaluates to true and enter a formula that returns a value of “True” or “False.” Salesforce triggers the rule if the formula returns “True.” For example, the formula AND(ISCHANGED( Priority ), ISPICKVAL (Priority, “High”) ) triggers a rule that changes the owner of a case when the Priority field is changed to High. If your condition uses a custom field, the rule entry will be deleted automatically if the custom field is deleted.
User : Specifies the user or queue to which the lead or case will be assigned if it matches the condition. Users specified here cannot be marked “inactive” and they must have “Read” permission on leads or cases.
Do Not Reassign Owner : Specifies that the current owner on a lead or case will not be reassigned to the lead or case when it is updated.
Email Template : We can specifies the template to use for the email that is automatically sent to the new owner. If no template is specified, no email will be sent. When assigning a lead or case to a queue, the notification goes to the Queue Email address specified for the queue and all queue members.
Predefined Case Teams : Specifies the predefined case team(s) to add to a case when it matches the condition. A case team is a group of people that work together to solve cases.
Replace any existing predefined case teams on the case : Specifies that any existing predefined case teams on the case are replaced with the predefined case teams on the condition, when a case matches the condition.

After creating the entry, click Save , or Save & New to save the entry and create more entries.

Assignment Rule Example

Following is sample Case assignment rule which assigns case to different queues based on Billing Country, Account SLA and customer type:

For more details about assignment rules please refer to assignment rules official link.

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Case Assignment Rules Determine how cases are assigned to users or put into queues as they are created manually, using Web-to-Case, Email-to-Case, On-Demand Email-to-Case, the Self-Service portal, the Customer Portal, Outlook, or Lotus Notes.

Dayene on August 25, 2020 at 7:01 pm

Hi! What about when I want my assignment to change when the Lead status is changed? I’ve created two criterias. First when the status is new and second when the status has other values. But when the Lead is updated and the status changes the assignment doesn´t follow this change and it does not assignment the Lead Owner correctly. Thanks.

Vrushabh LEngade on October 27, 2020 at 3:51 pm

Use Escalation Rules and escalate the case to another user or queue

subhasini on December 23, 2021 at 6:19 pm

Hi Ankush Dureja, there is a interview question on assignment and the question is : What will happen if the user becomes inactive(or user is deactivated) on whom the rule is assigned. Please reply me ASAP

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If you’ve ever encountered the error message, “Apex CPU time limit exceeded,” you’ve run into Salesforce’s timeout limit for transactions based on CPU usage. The message indicates your transaction is taking too long and, therefore, has been shut down. And unfortunately, it was shut down with all completed and in-process tasks reverted. These error messages affect data accuracy, timeliness and, eventually, speed to lead. They’re also a signal you likely have bigger root problems in your Salesforce org.

What is causing the CPU time limit error?

Salesforce imposes a CPU usage governor limit for every given execution context, from 10 seconds for synchronous transactions to 60 seconds for asynchronous transactions. Just as they sound, in a synchronous transaction, all actions are done at one time. In an asynchronous transaction, actions are done in multiple transactions. Simply, the combination of your Apex code and any declarative tools, including AppExchange packages, must not exceed those systemic limits.

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CPU timeouts primarily occur in two very different situations. First, in a relatively simple process, you attempt to process too many records at once, resulting in your code hitting the processing limit. The second situation involves processing a smaller number of records through a process too complex for Salesforce to handle within its CPU time limits. All that being written, your CPU time is a simple function of the number of records multiplied by the time to process.

CPU time = (# of records) x (time needed to process)

There are a few exceptions to these primary causes of CPU timeouts. One, your inserts, updates or deletions may meet conditions that trigger something to happen after the fact. Two, you may have long running or poorly written Apex classes.

Whose Job is it to Fix a CPU Timeout Error?

For many RevOps or SalesOps pros, a CPU timeout error is often passed to a technical team. However, it’s helpful to identify patterns and be prepared to answer questions like:

Does this normally occur when a batch is running? Or is this from an action from within the Salesforce interface / layout?
Does this happen during a large operation?
Were there any recent changes to the Salesforce instance? Any new applications or updated applications?
Was a new Salesforce Flow or Process Builder launched?

It’s also important for Ops pros to evaluate the business impact of the time out. What is the urgency? If the error is urgent, Ops pros need be prepared with workarounds .

Conducting a Salesforce CPU audit

You should conduct periodic Salesforce CPU audits even if you’re not currently experiencing timeout errors. It’s always a good practice to discover what consumes the majority of your CPU time, and a good audit is absolutely necessary if you’re looking to scale.

Use the following steps to conduct your own CPU audit. Be sure you’ve first enabled the live Debug Log :

1 – Access the Developer Console

2 – Select a log from the “Logs” tab

3 – In the Debug menu on the top navigation bar, select Switch Perspective and then Analysis (Predefined)

4 – Select Timeline , then choose your relevant Scale

Given the resulting timeline view, you will be able to see the execution sequence for your Apex, Workflow and Database actions, and how much time each consumes. With that data, you can then dive deeper into the details of what actions are consuming too much of your CPU time.

The best place to start is to investigate the creation of leads, contacts and accounts, determining how long the system takes to run Apex code , validation rules, workflow rules, process builders and database queries.

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If you’re hitting Apex CPU time limit exceeded errors, the quick, relatively easy fix includes:

process your manual inserts in smaller batches
schedule your automation to run only when and where needed
control your batch size in automated updates

For more complex processes, there are a variety of possible root causes and corresponding solutions, and an overview of each is provided below.

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The Process Builder most often causes CPU timeout errors when there are multiple processes per Object. Best practice is to consolidate multiple processes into only one process per Salesforce Object. One possible solution is to migrate your automation from Process Builder to an Apex trigger, as triggers often work faster and are less prone to produce an error. However, Apex triggers are more difficult to build, and often require developers who have experience with complex coding.

Flows often cause CPU timeout errors when they happen after save rather than with the before save flow feature from SFDC’s Spring 2020 release. Migrate your existing flows to the new model and select the before save option upon the creation of your flow.

There are many situations where Apex code causes CPU timeout errors, including the following:

Inefficient filters when looping or diving into nested layers of a loop can lead to higher processing costs. The loops and layers are not the real issue, but an unfiltered/poorly-filtered list of records adds unnecessary operations to records, as an excess of data might be getting pushed further into nested loops. Every nested loop that doesn’t first filter the data enough is going to add another operation to excess data. So, poor filtering in nested loops could lead to exponentially higher CPU demands.
Multiple triggers require more processing; limit the number of triggers fired on one update.
Circular updates between two objects result in a continuous, never-ending execution loop and, eventually, a CPU timeout. Rewrite to eliminate the loop.
Querying and updating the same object multiple times wastes resources; implement a practice of one update on one object.
Updates that call the same update trigger more than once within a transaction are unnecessary. Eliminate multiple calls in a transaction.

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Lastly, managed packages from the AppExchange can be disproportionately consuming your resources. While AppExchange packages receive an increase for a lot of different Salesforce limits, CPU time is not one of them. A managed package shares the same CPU pool with everything else in your Salesforce organization. You cannot edit the code of most managed packages, so it’s critical to only keep packages in your instance that add value and uninstall those that are no longer needed.

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Salesforce is a shared resource, with multiple customers, applications and ISV (Independent Software Vendor) partners all running on top of it. Everyone and everything competes for scarce resources, and Salesforce has systems to deal them out in allocation.

The challenge for any Salesforce customer looking into performance issues is that Salesforce does not provide the visibility, tools and diagnostics for you to easily understand what’s happening. And, that’s critical. We all need to understand and address the root causes of problems, not symptoms.

As mentioned above, a great place to start to understand root causes of slow performance is an audit using a debug log. While it takes a technical understanding of Salesforce, it does shed light into what’s taking up your scarce SFDC resources. Watch out for your own customizations. Salesforce does not protect you from yourself!

Within LeanData’s role as a Salesforce ISV partner, we take seriously our responsibility to act as a discerning steward to the entire Salesforce ecosystem. We write our app’s triggers to be lightweight, and asynchronous processing is utilized to ensure that LeanData has minimal impact to your record update CPU load.

Also, within the LeanData lead-to-account Matching and Routing products, specific user tools allow you, the customer, to prioritize the handling of different objects and lead types. This ensures your hottest leads, like a demo request, are fast tracked, while lower priority leads, like trade show booth visitors, are processed later. The end result is a judicious and prudent use of Salesforce resources. LeanData sits at the center of your revenue tech stack, capturing signals, calling plays, and helping technologies work together seamlessly.

When it comes to Salesforce, we are all in this together. While Salesforce is the preeminent CRM, it does present its occasional challenges, and CPU time limit exceeded errors are the biggest thorns.

Use the tips above to eliminate those obstacles and get your go-to-market motions back on track!

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1. Log in to your Salesforce Org and press Setup on the top proper Setup

2. Type “Assignment Rules” in the Setup search box and select “Leads Assignment Rules” or “Case Assignment Rules.”

3. Select a new entry for the Assignment Rule

4. Give the rule a name and specify if you want it active for leads or cases that are manually made and by those created automatically by web and email. Click save.

5. You should now create the rule criteria. Click on the rule you just created and click on “New” in the rule entries.

6. Enter an order for the rule and the rule that you want to specify for Lead or Cases. This rule can either be based on a “set of criteria” or a “formula.”

7. Select the user or queue to assign the Lead or Case Rule. You can use the magnifying glass to look up specific users or queues. Then press Save.

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