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100

What's the difference between the Manager ID and Account Role-based user hierarchy settings?

  • Manager ID: User-to-user (direct manager) hierarchy, based on explicit manager assignments.
  • Role Hierarchy: Role-to-role (group-based) hierarchy governed by Salesforce roles, which can nest and expand the reporting view beyond direct managers.
100
If a customer wants to build out a widget the number of contacts that qualify for 4 different segments, how would they do that?

Build out a segment widget and select "multiple segments option"

100

How do we determine if purges (partial) run after initiation or in the evening?

purging more than 200 records means it will run in the evening

100

True or False: When account sync filters are changed for an integration, all contacts that fall under accounts that do not meet the filter are soft-deleted along with the accounts.

FALSE

If a contact is not connected to the CRM, it will not be soft deleted.

100
True or False: There's no need to confirm with the customer when updating their Account sync filter

FALSE

200

How can you find the CRM ID of a contact in a customer's SFDC instance if all you have is their email address?

Navigate to SFDC Configuration page and query their SFDC instance:

select id from account where email = '___'

200

True or False: For Command Center cards that pull from a custom table, it's expected to see Team Member filters for ALL account reference fields on the table.

TRUE

200

When an account fails to enter a play after qualifying for the entry criteria segment, what should you check?

Check the change history for the play to confirm if the entry settings were changed after the account entered the segment.

Example: Allow inactive accounts setting being turned on after segment entry

200

When filtering for which records to show in the Timeline, what filtering options do you have for Tasks/Activities?

Assigned To

Priority

Status

Type

200

A customer tells you that they are going out to be OOO for the next week, but they'd like you to keep the ticket open. What should you do?

Put the ticket On-hold or Open - Pending Research

300

If Outlook or Gmail is enabled for a customer who is looking to plays to send emails, in which situations would we still only use Sendgrid?

  • Internal email play step
  • Email play steps with message review OFF
  • (Note: survey emails will always be sent through SendGrid as well)
300

A customer wants to calculate how many accounts/contacts have values (not empty) for each field in those standard tables. How could this be accomplished?

Using a custom dashboard, you can create a Segment widget for each field that pulls from a segment where said field IS NOT EMPTY.

The widget settings would be Show Segment Count and Hide Segment Details.

300

What happens when an account enters the entry criteria segment while the play is paused?

The account does NOT enter the play, even when it is unpaused

300

When pasting field values from a CSV or Excel file into a segment filter, what would cause the values to be combined and not delimited?

An unrecognized character like " | "

300

Is it better to loop in the CSM in a ticket or tell the customer to reach out to them separately?

Loop in the CSM

400

How do we audit the change history for the Segment.com integration page?

select * from t5384.vwaudit where tablename = 'TenantConfigItem' and tablerowid in (select id from t5384.TenantConfigItem where name = 'SegmentComSyncSetupJson')

400

If number values are failing to show in alphabetical order in a report or segment, despite being sorted that way, what's a possible explanation?

The number values are populating a text field instead of a number field type

400

How can you confirm if an account/contact was created via usage if it was created more than 30 days ago?

Navigate to the Usage tab of the account and check that there are events there. If so, find the earliest event recorded and note the date/time. Now, query the account in Adhoc SQL to find the rowcreateddate. If the date/time values match, we know it was created via usage.

400

What should you do when suggesting updates that the customer should make to their segments?

Test the updates yourself and send screenshots of the filters they should be adding

400

Customer is requesting that we update their configuration for one of their integrations. How should we respond?

Confirm they understand their heir current configuration with a screenshot and make sure you understand exactly what you'd like them to change.

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