Managing Assets5% of the exam
Asset hierarchy, relationships and lifecycle fields
How to maintain assets in Agentforce Field Service and Operations: required account or contact, parent-child hierarchies with Root Asset and Asset Level, asset relationships for replacements and upgrades, the accounts and contacts around an asset, Status and Usage End Date, sharing, and the related lists that show an asset's work history.
Apply procedural concepts to maintain and update assets and asset relationships.
~8 min read · 15 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Create and maintain assets with the required name and account or contact, including competitor assets and assets created after a product is consumed.
- Build asset hierarchies with Parent Asset and Child Assets, read Root Asset and Asset Level, and expose the View Asset Hierarchy tree grid.
- Record replacements, upgrades and crossgrades with asset relationships, add custom relationship types, and read the Primary Assets and Related Assets lists.
- Place the customer, provider and servicer in the right account fields, and use account and contact participants for everyone else in the asset's life.
- Maintain lifecycle fields (Status, Usage End Date), asset sharing and the related lists that show work on an asset.
Key terms:
- Asset: a specific product a customer has purchased, with details such as serial number and purchase date.
- Asset hierarchy: parent-child links that represent a product with multiple components.
- Asset relationship: a non-hierarchical link between a new asset and the existing asset it replaces or modifies.
- Root Asset: read-only field listing the top-level asset in a hierarchy.
- Asset participant: an Asset Account Participant or Asset Contact Participant record tying an account or contact to an asset's lifecycle.
Key facts
Asset required fields
- Detail
- Name plus Account, Contact or both
Hierarchy size
- Detail
- Up to 10,000 assets
Tree grid
- Detail
- Hierarchies of 500 or fewer assets
Asset Level
- Detail
- Root 1, children 2, their children 3
Root Asset
- Detail
- Read-only; lists the top-level asset
Relationship Asset vs Related Asset
- Detail
- New asset vs existing asset being modified
Relationship Type
- Detail
- Replacement (default), Upgrade, Crossgrade; more in Setup
To Date
- Detail
- When the modified asset is uninstalled
Status defaults
- Detail
- Purchased, Shipped, Installed, Registered, Obsolete
Asset sharing off
- Detail
- Access follows the parent object's sharing rules
Standard user default
- Detail
- Read, Create, Edit, Delete on assets
Participants
- Detail
- Multiple account and contact participants per asset
- Why can an older asset show an Asset Level of –1?
- When do the Locations and Maintenance Plans related lists appear on an asset?
- Which asset relationship field records when the new asset was installed?
- Which page layouts can carry the Assets related list?
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