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Published inOct 2022
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Sharif Shaalan
Sharif Shaalan
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Sharif Shaalan

Sharif Shaalan was first introduced to Salesforce as an end user in 2007. His range of experience, from a sales rep to technical architect, helped him successfully lead more than 100 implementations including projects that were showcased on the main stage at Dreamforce. In 2013, Sharif was chosen as a Salesforce MVP, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Sharif is a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences and has obtained more than 10 Salesforce certifications. He is the founder and CEO of Agile Cloud Consulting and continues to be an active Salesforce community contributor
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Timothy Royer
Timothy Royer
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Timothy Royer

Timothy Royer is the VP of Delivery at Agile Cloud Consulting and a Salesforce Certified Application Architect. Timothy began his Salesforce career in 2012 as an accidental administrator and has since participated in a number of implementations in a variety of roles. Timothy has experience as a Salesforce customer, a Salesforce partner, and as a member of the Salesforce.org professional services team.
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Creating lead assignment rules

Lead assignment rules are a great tool for assigning lead records automatically. Knowing the capabilities of lead assignment rules will lead to fewer clicks for your users and quicker business process execution when working with leads. Lead assignment rules are created in the Setup section of Salesforce. Let’s learn how to create a lead assignment rule.

Business use case

You are the Salesforce admin for XYZ Widgets. The sales manager has a use case where any new lead created in Salesforce needs to be assigned to a specific user based on the State/Province field of the lead. Leads with a state/province of New York will be assigned to one user, while leads with a state/province of New Jersey will be assigned to another. Let’s learn how to build this.

Lead assignment rules in action

To create a lead assignment rule, we need to perform a few steps:

  1. Navigate to the Setup page | the Home tab | Feature Settings | Lead...
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Sharif Shaalan

Sharif Shaalan was first introduced to Salesforce as an end user in 2007. His range of experience, from a sales rep to technical architect, helped him successfully lead more than 100 implementations including projects that were showcased on the main stage at Dreamforce. In 2013, Sharif was chosen as a Salesforce MVP, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Sharif is a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences and has obtained more than 10 Salesforce certifications. He is the founder and CEO of Agile Cloud Consulting and continues to be an active Salesforce community contributor
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Timothy Royer

Timothy Royer is the VP of Delivery at Agile Cloud Consulting and a Salesforce Certified Application Architect. Timothy began his Salesforce career in 2012 as an accidental administrator and has since participated in a number of implementations in a variety of roles. Timothy has experience as a Salesforce customer, a Salesforce partner, and as a member of the Salesforce.org professional services team.
Read more about Timothy Royer