Using Case Status to drive the process

The case Status field drives the case life cycle. This field allows you to see where the case is at a point in time.

The following screenshot shows the options for Case Status. These values can be customized for the business use case, as needed:

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are four Case Status values, as follows:

  • New: This is the default status when a case is created.
  • Working: This status lets us know that the case is being actively worked on.
  • Escalated: This status lets us know that the case has been escalated to another department or a manager due to an issue.
  • Closed: This status ...

Get Salesforce for Beginners now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.