Set Up Frontline Workforce Management

Before your teams can use Frontline Workforce Management, turn it on, assign permission sets, and create a custom Lightning Console app for your team to use.

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Configuration Step Documentation
1. Get the Frontline Workforce Management and Unified Workforce Management add-on licenses. Manage Your Salesforce Account

2. From Setup, turn on Frontline Workforce Management and its features.

  • Enable Frontline Workforce Management. The required tab set is automatically installed when you enable the feature.
Enable Frontline Workforce Management and Feature Preferences
3. Assign all four Frontline Workforce Management sets to your own user profile. Assign the appropriate permission sets to your fellow users. Frontline Workforce Management User Permission Sets

4. Create a custom Lightning Console app Frontline Workforce Management.

Add some or all of these features to the Select Items page:

  • Home
  • Intelligent Forecasts
  • Job Profiles
  • Capacity Plans
  • Operating Hours
  • Resource Absences
  • Schedule Manager
  • Scheduling Constraints
  • Service Resources
  • Service Resource Preferences
  • Service Territories
  • Shift Scheduling Operations
  • Shifts and Shift Templates
  • Time Sheets
  • Workloads
Create and Edit a Custom Lightning Console App