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Help Your Team Manage Sales Conversations
Let your sales team manage conversations and live chat from one place. Create a Messaging Session record page that contains conversation and customer record components. Then create a compact layout so your team can see more information about incoming chats in their Omni-Channel widget.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available with Sales in Performance and Unlimited Editions |
| Available with Sales Engagement, which is available in Performance and Unlimited Editions, and for an extra cost in Professional and Enterprise Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create Lightning pages: | Customize Application |
| To view Lightning pages: | View Setup and Configuration |
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To let your team see their messaging session details in contact records, create a contact
action.
- For the action type, select Update a Record. And for the standard label type, select Update [Record].
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To let team members track their sales conversations easily, create a Messaging Session
record page.
- For the page template, select Pinned Left Sidebar (2 regions) or Header and Left Sidebar.
- In Lightning App Builder, add the Enhanced Conversation component to the left sidebar. Then add the Highlights component and two Related Records components to the right side of the page.
- Select a Related Record component and label it Contact. Then edit the Lookup Field. For the First Lookup, select Messaging User Contact. And for the Second Lookup, select Use This Contact.
- Select the other Related Record component and label it Lead. Then edit the Lookup Field. For the First Lookup, select Lead. And for the Second Lookup, select Use This Lead.
- Assign this page as the app default for Online Sales, Sales, and Sales Console.
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To see your customer’s name in the Omni-Channel widget and record page, create a custom
Messaging Session field that stores the chatting customer’s name.
- For the data type, select Formula. And for the formula return type, select Text.
- In the Advanced Formula tab, insert the Messaging User Name field. After the field’s API name, add & ‘ | Ready to Live Chat’ so that the formula field contains MessagingEndUser.Name & ‘ | Ready to Live Chat’.
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To show the Messaging Session object in your team members’ Omni-Channel widget, create a
compact layout for the Messaging Session object.
- Add the custom Messaging Session field you created and the Status, Start Time, and Origin fields to the layout.
- Change the primary compact layout to your custom record page.

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