If you are a Salesforce customer and a Vanilla hosted customer, it is now possible for community managers to escalate forum posts to Salesforce.

Once you’ve enabled the Salesforce plugin and configured the connection, you’ll see two new options in the post menu: Salesforce – Add Lead and Salesforce – Create Case.A pop up will let you edit Case or Lead information and, upon submit, a new record will be created in Salesforce:

An information panel seen only by community managers and admins under the original forum post displays the most recent status in Salesforce:

To learn more about this integration, contact our sales team.

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