Introduction to the Salesforce Console
The console is where all of Salesforce’s service features come together. The console is a unifying help desk experience for agents. It gives your team a 360-degree view of each customer and where that customer is in your support process. Think of the console as a camera lens that zooms in and out on your customers. When agents view cases in a console, they can quickly zoom in all the little details related to the customer—account, contact, products, and more—or they can focus on the one big detail: the customer’s question or feedback.
A console is a type of Salesforce app that’s designed for speed. You can create as many console apps as you need, as long as you don’t exceed your organization’s custom app limits. Just like other apps in Salesforce, you can access it from the App menu. Unlike other apps in Salesforce, a console uses tab-based navigation and a dashboard-like interface. Tabs help agents easily see all of the information they need on one screen without losing context, while the dashboard interface helps agents spot what they need so that they can complete tasks in an instant. Let’s take a look at a console app.