When you use contact roles, your sales team always knows who to contact and when. Set up
contact roles for each available object you want to use them with. You can define which roles to
use and how they appear to your sales reps.
Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: All Editions
ImportantIn Salesforce Classic, contact roles are available
for accounts, opportunities, cases, and contracts. In Lightning Experience, contact roles
are available for opportunities, contracts, and cases. Although contact roles work
similarly for each available object, they work independently. Therefore, you need to set
them up and use them separately for each object.
From Setup, enter Contact Roles in the Quick
Find box, then select the contact roles you want to set up.
Modify the picklist values as needed. You can even create new values and add color to
the values whenever they appear in charts.
Save your changes.
Add the Contact Roles related list to the appropriate page layout.
For example, if you’re creating contact roles for opportunities, add the Contact
Roles related list to the opportunity page layouts that your sales reps use.
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