Configure Automatic Priority Assignment for IT Services
Simplify decision-making and speed up record creation by automatically defining priority
for incidents, problems, and change requests based on their urgency and impact. Handle critical
issues faster and track service-level agreements (SLAs) more easily.
Required Editions
Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Unlimited and Enterprise editions with Agentforce IT
Service.
User Permissions Needed
To configure priority assignment:
View Setup and Configuration
From the Salesforce Go page, go to the Features tab and filter the
features by selecting Agentforce IT Service from the Cloud dropdown
menu.
Define priority assignment rules for Incident Management.
On Incident Management, click Get Started or Keep
Going.
Next to Configure Rules for Automatic Incident Priority, click
Configure.
Turn on Automatic Priority Assignment for IT Service.
Select a default priority.
If you want to allow users to manually override the priority, select Set
Priority Manually.
Define priority assignment values based on urgency and impact, tailored to your company's
needs.
For example, if you define the value for both urgency and impact as High, set the
value for priority as Critical.
To define values for different combinations of urgency and impact, click Add
More.
We recommend defining the priority rules for all possible combinations of urgency and
impact.
Save your changes.
Similarly, configure these rules for Problem Management and Change Management.
Example
To ensure that critical issues are addressed first, a company defines a priority matrix for their
IT team. For incidents with a high impact and high urgency, the priority is automatically set to
critical. However, for an incident with high impact but low urgency, the priority is set to
moderate to indicate it can be handled in a less immediate timeframe.
Here is an example table that aligns with industry standards for defining
automatic priority assignment.
Urgency
Impact
Priority
High
High
Critical
High
Medium
High
Medium
High
High
Low
High
Moderate
High
Low
Moderate
Medium
Medium
Moderate
Medium
Low
Low
Low
Medium
Low
Low
Low
Low
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