Drip feed dispatching is a feature that allows dispatching service appointments gradually throughout the daybased on a drip feed rate defined for each service territory or resource. If other scheduled jobs are dispatching appointments and exceeding the drip feed value, then the drip feed dispatching will not trigger as expected. The appointment status going fromScheduled to Completed or being Canceled, Completed, or Cannot Complete does not affect drip feed dispatching, as these are valid status transitions for dispatched appointments. The default drip feed setting does not override the drip feed rate on a service territory, but provides a fallback value if no rate is specified on the territory or resource level. References: https://help.
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Excluded Resources are used to prevent certain service resources from being assigned to specific accounts or locations based on customer feedback or preferences. Assigning theTechnician to a new Service Territory would affect all their service appointments, not just those for that Customer. Removing the Technician as a Preferred Resource would not prevent them from being assigned to that Customer, but would lower their priority. Creating a new Work Order Validation Rule would not affect the scheduling or optimization of service appointments, but would only validate data entry on work orders. References: https://help.salesforce.
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Service Territory Location is a junction object that links Service Territory and Location objects[236]. Related Lists are components on page layouts that show records that are related to a record through a lookup or master- detail relationship[237]. Adding the Service Territory Location Related List on the Service Territory page layout and adding the Service Territory Location Related List on the Location page layout would allow Universal Containers to show howLocations are associated to Territories by displaying a list of Service Territory Locations on each record[238]. Creating the Service Territory Location as a Service Territory lookup field or creating the Service Territory Location as a Location lookup field would not work because they are not valid fields on either object. References: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api.
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Arrival Window Start and Arrival Window End are fields on the Service Appointment that indicate when a technician is expected to arrive at a customer site based on travel time and service duration calculations.
These fields can be shared with customersto set expectations around upcoming appointments. Scheduled End and Scheduled Start are fields on the Service Appointment that indicate when a technician is scheduled to start and end their service based on their availability and assigned time slots. These fields are not accurate indicators of when a technician will arrive at a customer site, as they do not account for travel time and service duration variations. References:https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.
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Street Level Routing is a feature that calculates travel time between service appointments based on actual road distance and traffic conditions[131]. DefaultTravel Speed is a setting that defines the average speed of resources when traveling between service appointments[132]. Using Street Level Routing and Default Travel Speed would allow improving travel time accuracy by taking into account real-time road conditions and resource speed. Minimum Grade, Default Operating Hour would not affect travel time accuracy. Minimum Grade is a setting that defines the minimum skill level required for resources to be matched with service appointments[133]. Default OperatingHour is a record that defines the default working hours for resources
[134]. Estimated Travel Time, Minimize Travel would not affect travel time accuracy. Estimated Travel Time is a field on the service appointment object that shows the expected travel timefor the assigned resource[135].
Minimize Travel is an optimization criterion that prioritizes reducing travel time when scheduling service appointments[136]. Travel Speed Unit, Actual Travel Time would not affect travel time accuracy. Travel Speed Unit isa setting that defines the unit of measurement for travel speed such as miles per hour or kilometers per hour[137]. Actual Travel Time is a field on the service appointment object that shows the actual travel time recorded by the resource[138]. References: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.
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