Update or Create a Contact Record

To start go to your Formyoula Dashboard - https://app.formyoula.com/dashboard and click "New Form".

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  1. Rename your form, we will use "New Contact".
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  1. Drag and drop a “Salesforce Lookup” field on your form. This will be used to find an existing Contact on Salesforce.
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  1. Next drag and drop two “Text” fields for “First Name” and “Last Name”, and one “Email” field for “Email”.
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[Optional] Drag and drop a Hidden field on your form. This can be used to automatically populate fields in Salesforce, for example, picklist, select list and other fields. In this case, we will populate a check-box field for attendance. Please use the value “true” without capital letters.

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  1. Add as many other fields as you need, when done click on the “Save & Close” button.
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  1. Next, we will need to create a Salesforce connection. Please click on the "Add" button under the "Connections" column or press the "Create a Connection" button under the "Next Step" column, or select "Add/ Edit Connections" from the "Actions" list.
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  1. Select Salesforce from the available list and click “Create Connection”.
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  1. Select “Contact” from the available “Salesforce Object” list and click “Save”.
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  1. Next, select the Salesforce lookup from the available ”Update based on lookup” list. This will ensure to update the existing Contact on Salesforce. When done click “Save Record Settings”.
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  1. Click “Save Record Settings” when done.
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  1. Now we need to map our Formyoula Contact fields to the Salesforce contact fields.
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  1. Go back to the Formyoula Dashboard when done.
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  1. On the Formyoula Dashboard, click the "Try" button to launch the Mobile Web App.
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  1. Select the newly created form.
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14. Fill in and submit the form. Use either Salesforce lookup to update the existing Contact or create a new one by filling in the fields. In this case, we will be creating a new Contact record.

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  1. Now when you open Salesforce you will be able to see the new or updated Contact record. With the check-box ticked.
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If you have any questions please email [email protected].