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Sharif Shaalan
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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.
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Using Web-to-Case to generate case capture forms

Very similar to Web-to-Lead, which we covered in Chapter 3, Creating and Managing Leads, Web-to-Case is an easy way to generate HTML code that you can drop into your website to create a case capture form. A case capture form lives outside of Salesforce but creates a case directly in Salesforce when the form is saved. This can be a page on your website or any other form where you would want the case to be automatically added to Salesforce. Let’s see how this is done.

In the following screenshot, I started typing web into the search bar. This brings up any items in Setup that contain these letters:

Graphical user interface, application  Description automatically generated

Figure 7.13: Reaching Web-to-Case by using the search bar

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, after clicking on Web-to-Case, it takes you into the section where you can set this up.

Note: This section is only available to users with the view setup and configuration permission.

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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.
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