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Manage Program Cohorts and Cohort Members
Group participants together in a program, and track them as a group—or cohort—over time. Remove a cohort member and retain their history in the cohort.
Required Editions
| Available in: Education Cloud, Nonprofit Cloud, and Public Sector Solutions. View edition availability. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To manage cohorts and cohort members: | Advanced Program Management permission set OR Education Cloud Full Access permission set |
Create Program Cohorts and Add Cohort Members
To group program participants, create a cohort and add members. For example, track participants in the spring cycle as one cohort and participants in the fall cycle as another cohort.
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From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Program and Benefit Management
Settings, and then turn on these settings:
- Create and manage your programs, benefits, and goals.
- Allow users to access all benefit assignment and goal assignment records when the user has access to the benefit assignment and goal assignment's parent records.
- Create and manage program cohorts.
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In the Program Management app navigation menu, select Program
Cohorts.
- Click New.
- Name the program cohort.
- Select the program that the cohort is for.
- Enter a Start Date.
- For additional information, select a status, enter an end date, enter the maximum number of members for the cohort, and add a description.
- Save your work.
- To add cohort members, go to the program cohort's Program Cohort Members related list, and then click New.
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Select the program enrollment for the program cohort member.
A program enrollment can be active in a cohort only one time.
- Save your work.
Remove a Participant from a Cohort
To remove someone from a cohort, update the person's Program Cohort Member record. When you remove a cohort member, Salesforce keeps their history of being part of the cohort and the date that you removed them.
- In the Program Management app navigation menu, select Program Cohorts.
- From the Program Cohort Members related list, select the program cohort member that you want to remove.
- Edit the record and select Removed From Cohort.
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Save your changes.
If the Removal Date field is blank, Salesforce sets the removal date to the current date when you save your changes.
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