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The Agent permission set gives access to create cases and work orders, view work types and work rules, book and manage appointments, assign mobile resources, and optimize schedules. References:https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_permission_sets.htm &type=5

This option allows visualizing the planned travel route for a technician on a map, based on the street-level directions and traffic conditions. References:https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_street_level_routing.htm &type=5

User Territories are records that associate users with service territories for sharing purposes[90]. Creating a new user territory associated with the Service Territory and dispatcher would allow giving access to all relevant Midwest records by linking them with their corresponding service territory[91]. Configuring and running the User Territory Sharing Jobin Field Service Settings would allow updating sharing rules based on user territories automatically at regular intervals such as daily or weekly[92]. Assigning a new user territory and adding each of the assigned service resources would not give access to all relevant Midwest records

Polygons are geographic areas that define service territories for scheduling and optimization purposes. The Polygon Assignment Policy determines which polygon in a service territory hierarchy is used to assign service appointments to service resources based on their location or skills. Setting it to the Lowest Level ensures that service appointments are assigned based on the polygon of the child service territory in the hierarchy1. Setting it to the Highest Level would use the polygon of the parent service territory in the hierarchy1. TheTerritory Assignment Policy determines which territory in a hierarchy is used to filter available resources for scheduling. It does not affect polygon assignment. References: 1 https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_polygons_overview.htm &type=5https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_territories_overview.htm &type=5

A Service Appointment with a single Work Order with Work Order Line Items for each Asset allows servicing multiple Assets at a customer site during a single visit with minimal impact for the customer and consolidated work for the Technician[28. Creating and scheduling independent Work Orders for each Asset, each with a Service Appointment, would create unnecessary complexity and duplication. Creating designated Time Slots to ensure appropriate time is held to accommodate these types of visits would not address the requirement of servicing multiple Assets. Creating a single Work Order with Work Order Line Items for each Asset, each with a Service Appointment, would create redundant service appointments for the same visit. References: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_service_appointments.htm &type=5 https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_work_orders.htm &type=5https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_work_order_line_items.htm &type=5

Product Items are records that track the location, quantity, and status of a product in inventory[43]. Product Items can be used to better understand the distribution of acritical and expensive part across all inventory locations as the part is reused and restocked. Maintenance Plan is a feature that defines the recurring service schedule for an asset or a product[44]. Entitlement Plan is a feature that defines the terms ofsupport for customers such as number of cases allowed or response time[45]. Assets are records that represent products that customers have purchased and that require service[46]. References: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_product_items.htm &type=5 https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_maintenance_plans_overview.htm &type=5 https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView? id=sf.entitlements_templates_overview.htm&type=5https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_assets.htm &type=5

Updating the Resource as not available allows marking a resource as unavailable for a specific time period due to sickness, vacation, or other reasons[27. Selecting the affected Service Appointments and pressing “Schedule” allows rescheduling multiple service appointments at once based on predefined criteria such as travel time or priority[28. Dragging and dropping the Service Appointments to other available Resources and running Optimization would reschedule service appointments manually and then run an optimization process that could override the manual changes[29. Asking the Customer Service Rep to call the customers and manually re-schedule for another day would not use the scheduling features of Field Service and could result in customer dissatisfactionor missed service level agreements. Changing the Scheduling Policy to “High Intensity” and activating the Background Optimization process would change the optimization criteria for all service appointments and run an optimization process in the backgroundthat could take a long time to complete[30. References: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_resource_absences_overview.htm &type=5 https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_schedule_service_appointments.htm &type=5 https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_global_optimization_overview.htm &type=5https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_background_optimization_overview.htm &type=5

Match Boolean is an optimization criterion that prioritizes matching service appointments with resources based on boolean fields such as certifications or preferences[139]. Using Match Boolean in the Scheduling Policy would allow Universal Containers to ensure that Service Appointments are only assigned to Active Resources bycreating a boolean field on the service resource object such as Active Resource and setting it to true or false depending on their status. Match Fields is an optimization criterion that prioritizes matching service appointments with resources based on fields such as skills or territories[140]. Preferred Resources is an optimization criterion that prioritizes assigning service appointments to resources who have previously completed similar work orders or who are preferred by customers[141]. Required Resources is an optimization criterion that prioritizes assigning service appointments to resources who are explicitly required by customers or dispatchers[142]. References: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_scheduling_policies_optimization_criteria_match_boolean.htm &type=5https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_scheduling_policies_optimization_criteria_match_fields.htm &type=5 https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_scheduling_policies_optimization_criteria_preferred_resources.htm &type=5https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_scheduling_policies_optimization_criteria_required_resources.htm &type=5

hese two configurations allow adding a new status to the existing status flow for Service Appointments, and defining which statuses can transition to or from the new status. References:https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_status_transitions.htm &type=5

These two applications allow viewing all of the absence records at once, as they support displaying related lists on objects such as service resources or service territories. References:https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.fs_absences_overview.htm &type=5