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Create Activity (Workflow Subprocess)
The primary purpose of the eMail Response - Process Message workflow is to convert inbound email messages into activity records. These activity records are reviewed by agents using the Communications screen. The Create Activity step invokes a subprocess workflow, eMail Response - Create Activity, and passes in a number of variables, which create the activity record and perform a number of other steps. See Figure 7 for an illustration of this process.
In addition to creating an activity record, the Create Activity subprocess performs the following processes:
- Follow-up messages. If the original message was associated with an SR, this process returns the Service Request Id and Service Request Owner Id values so that follow-up messages will be associated with the SR.
- Contact lookup. The workflow searches contacts in your database to find one with a matching email address. If you set up multiple organizations, the contact lookup can be restricted to a specific organization.
- Language identification. Performing a language detection routine on the message, identifying the language of the inbound email message, which is later used to route the message to an agent with the appropriate language skills.
- Commit time calculation (entitlement verification). The workflow calculates the appropriate commit time, based on an entitlement.
- Activity attachments. The workflow stores the original message and attachments as activity attachments in your database.
For more information, see Completing Typical Setup Tasks.
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Siebel eMail Response Administration Guide Published: 21 April 2003 |