Salesforce Case Teams

In this Salesforce tutorial, we will learn about Salesforce Case teams Salesforce. The feature of creating case teams is available in Salesforce Lightning and Salesforce Classic. The Case teams help groups of people work together to solve a case.

We will discuss the Case teams in Salesforce through the following points

  • What is the Salesforce Case team?
  • Salesforce Case Teams vs Salesforce Queues
  • Create Salesforce Case Team Roles
  • Salesforce Predefine Case Teams

What is a Salesforce Case team?

A case team is a group of users within the organization who work together to solve Cases. Examples of case teams include support agents, support managers, and product managers. If a case is assigned to a case team, all team members will work on it.

Salesforce Case Teams vs Salesforce Queues

In Salesforce, a Case team is a group of individuals working on a case. If the case is on the case team, that means the case team already has resources assigned to resolve the issue.

If a case is in the queue, it will remain unattended unless someone accepts it. Case assignment might be different according to the support structure of the organizations.

In sharing settings, a queue is not needed if the Case object is defined as Public Read/Write/Transfer.

Create Salesforce Case Team Roles

To create the Case teams, we first need to create the Case team roles to determine team members’ level of access to cases.

Follow the below steps to create the Case Team Roles.

1. Navigate to Salesforce’s Setup page in the Quick Find box search and select Case team roles.

Create Case team roles in Salesforce

2. Click on the New button.

Create a New Case team role in Salesforce

3. Enter the Member Role Name for the Case team member.

4. In the Case Access, select the access for the case team members.

  • Read and Write – Members can view and edit cases and add related records, notes, and attachments.
  • Read Only – Members can view cases and add related records to them.
  • Private – Members can’t access cases.

5. To make the members in the role visible to customer portal users viewing cases, select the checkbox Visible in Customer Portal.

Case team Member role in Salesforce

6. At last, click on the Save button.

As we click Save, the case team member role will be created.

Salesforce Case team members role

This way, we can create the Salesforce Case team roles by following the above steps.

Salesforce Predefine Case Teams

In Salesforce predefined case teams are defined as a process to allocate a group of users to a case as a team. These teams are helpful where certain types of cases need specified kn