Create a Flow to Link Contacts to Cases

To improve service quality, add a flow that finds contacts for cases created by Email-to-Case. Use the flow template Find Contact for Associated Case from Email-to-Case.

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Your support reps can use this flow as-is in the Actions & Recommendations component. To meet business needs, you can also modify the flow template as follows.

  1. If you don’t use Channel-Object Linking, skip to step 3. If you do use it, turn it off before adding Individual-Object Linking. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Channel-Object Linking, and then select Channel-Object Linking.
  2. Turn off Channel-Object Linking.
  3. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Flows, and then select Flows under Process Automation.
  4. Click New Flow.
  5. Click All + Templates.
  6. Click Individual-Object Linking Flow.
  7. Select the Find Contact Associated with Case from Email-to-Case flow template.
    Select the Find Contact Associated with Case from Email-to-Case flow template.
  8. Click Create.
  9. Click Save.
  10. Test and update the flow, and then activate it.

When a support rep runs the flow, it displays contacts with the same email address as the case’s Web Email field. To link a contact to the case, the support rep selects a matching contact.