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Agentforce Platform | Identify Record by Name

Agentforce Platform | Identify Record by Name

Searches for Salesforce records by name and returns a list of matching record IDs. For example, if a user enters, “Show me the Acme records” in a Salesforce org with multiple records related to “Acme,” the action can return the Acme account, the Acme - 20k opportunity, and the Acme - 50k opportunity.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Foundations, or Agentforce 1 or Einstein 1 Editions
User Permissions Needed  
See Common User Access for Standard Agent Actions.

Action Details

API Name IdentifyRecordByName
Reference Action Type Standard Action
Does this action execute one or more prompt templates? No

Considerations

  • This action works with any searchable standard objects supported by the User Interface API and any searchable custom objects. External objects are not supported.
  • The maximum number of results returned is five. Three records are returned from the most relevant queried object. If other relevant objects exist, one record is returned for each of the next two relevant objects.
 
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