In this blog, I will be sharing the salesforce service cloud console- How to Enable Guide.

Salesforce service cloud console is designed to boost productivity for users in fast-paced environments.

Available in: Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with the Service Cloud
Available in: Performance and Developer Editions with the Sales Cloud
Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with the Sales Cloud for an additional cost

The salesforce service console, dashboard-like interface reduces clicking and scrolling so that you can quickly find, update, or create records. Using a console  one can easily access data and features you use most. For example, support agents can use multiple applications at once and keep the context of cases as priorities change. Sales reps can immediately contact leads, assess companies, identify key contacts, and access sales intelligence. Your customer support team is allowed to be more active with salesforce service cloud .

The consoles tab-based interface makes it easy for you to see records and their related items together on one screen, as well as work on multiple items simultaneously.
You can find further details in the undermentioned link.
(https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=console2_about.htm&language=en_US)

Let’s begin with enabling,

A Step by Step Guide to Enable Service Cloud in Salesforce.

Step 1: In your Salesforce, go to account page layout and go under highlighting panel.

Step 2: Click on the setting icon of highlighted portion a pop up will appear and select field for highlight panel and then click OK.

Step 3:Click on the layout property on the top of account layout a popup will appear fill page layout name and click on the highlighting check box, then click the OK button and save this layout.

Step 4:From step 4 we will create new app with enabled service cloud for this follow some simple steps Go to Setup Build Create Apps and click on the New button to create new App.

Step 5:For type of Custom App click on console check box as it will enable service cloud.

Step 6:Fill App Label and App Name and click on next.

Step 7:Choose the logo for App and click on next.

Step 8:Select the tabs you require in your App and click on next.

Step 9:In this step you will give preference to the tab that which should be primary one and which should be subtab and then click on next.

Step 10:Select the profiles who can access this app and then click on save.

Step 11:Now Again edit this Service Cloud app, in the choose list placement block, Select pinned to left. List are always visible and set its width to 40 percent and click on save.

Step 12:You can open this console by clicking Service Cloud App in the top right of your Salesforce application.

Desired Output: This is how the App will look like.

That’s pretty much it. Easy isn’t it!

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