Engagement Planning21% of the exam

Next Best Action, Account Summarization and agents

How to set up the out-of-the-box engagement planning intelligence in Agentforce Life Sciences: the Life Sciences Next Best Action component and its recommendation records, Account Summarization with cross-object graphs and its flows, and the persona agent templates for pre-visit planning.

Official exam objective
Given a scenario, describe how to set up out-of-the-box Agentforce features and Next Best.

~6 min read · 13 practice questions

What the exam expects

  • Set up Life Sciences Next Best Action: handlers, Apex class access, permission sets, action types, week settings, recommendation data and the record-page component.
  • Explain which recommendations reps can skip and how skip reasons are configured.
  • Configure Account Summarization: history tracking, cross-object graphs per profile, the batch flow and the summary flow.
  • Choose and enable the right persona agent template for pre-visit planning, and give users access.

Key terms:

  • Life Sciences Next Best Action: an account-page component showing recommended visits and emails in sequence.
  • Territory Account Recommended Action: the object holding each recommendation shown in that component.
  • Account Summarization: agent-generated summaries of an account's key information and recent changes.
  • Cross-object graph: a set of related objects, rooted at Account, whose fields feed the summary.
  • Pre Visit Planning: the topic provisioned on the Life Sciences persona agent templates.

Key facts

Component placement
Detail
Life Sciences Next Best Action on the account page's Dashboard tab
Recommendations shown
Detail
Accessible, active Territory Account Recommended Action records
Skip options
Detail
Current, actionable or past due only
NBA mobile cache
Detail
Account, Visit, LifeScienceEmail, TerritoryAcctRcmdAction as Data
First summary window
Detail
Last 90 days by default
Batch flow
Detail
Daily template flow; save as new flow first
Graph limits
Detail
3 levels, 5 nodes per level, Account as root
Untrackable fields
Detail
Formula, text area, derived
Template agent type
Detail
Agentforce Employee Agent
Agent access
Detail
Enabled Agent Access on a permission set or profile
Sources for this section (9)
  • Where is a generated account summary stored and shown?
  • When the summary flow reads graph objects, how are their records ordered?
  • Which agent type are the three Life Sciences pre-visit templates based on?
  • Why would you build a custom Summarize Provider Accounts batch job?

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