Map CE Contact and Account Fields to Salesforce Fields

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This page describes:

  • How 6sense (CE) field mapping works

  • Mapping your lead and account fields

  • Default and custom field mappings

How Salesforce field mapping works

Field mappings show which Salesforce record attributes will be imported and in which CE fields they will be stored.

The CE integration with Salesforce maps the Salesforce Lead/Contact objects to CE Leads, and the Salesforce Account objects to CE Accounts.

The integration with Salesforce imports the Lead, Contact, and Account data from the mapped fields when you enroll a Salesforce report to a 6sense Conversational Email campaign. You can use the imported data to personalize the email messaging for each of your leads.

CE only pulls in Salesforce field values on the first import. Any subsequent changes made on your Salesforce records will not be synced across to CE.

MAP the lead fields

By default, CE pre-maps the 5 lead/contact fields below, because they are required to create a CE lead record.

  • Id

  • First Name

  • Email

  • Account – Name (for Salesforce Contacts)

  • Account – Id (for Salesforce Contacts)

You can map any number of lead/contact fields in Salesforce to other pre-populated and custom CE lead fields in the Field Mappings table.

We recommend that you map these 6 fields below so that you can personalize your emails (with merge tags) using the field values:

  • Last Name

  • Account name

  • Company name

  • Job Title

  • Lead Owner Email

  • Job Title

After these fields have been mapped successfully, you can find them when you navigate to the Lead’s detail page and select Edit Details.

The mapped attributes will not be editable within the Lead’s detail page in CE.

Map the account fields

The process for mapping your Salesforce account fields to CE account fields is very similar to the above process for mapping your lead fields.

CE pre-maps these 2 account fields by default:

  • Id

  • Name

By pre-mapping the account ID, our system will allow you to associate a Salesforce-enrolled lead in CE with their respective Salesforce account.

You can go on to map other Salesforce account fields to pre-populated and custom CE account fields. This is a necessary step for further personalizing your email messaging in CE using the account field values as merge tags.

Mapping your account fields will also allow you to pull in Salesforce account field values into your CE Account details page. Account fields with no Salesforce field values will appear as “No data”.

Difference between default fields and custom fields

Default field mapping

CE integration with Salesforce maps some fields automatically. These default field mappings for leads include but are not limited to:

  • Id (Salesforce) -> CRM Object Id (CE)

  • First Name (Salesforce) -> First Name (CE)

  • Email (Salesforce) -> Email (CE)

At this moment, you will not be able to change the mapping of the default fields.

Custom field mapping

Other than the default fields listed above, you can add, remove, and map more fields from Salesforce to CE. This gives you more options to personalize the AI email agent’s emails and collect more data for your CRM from CE.

CE supports only the following types for custom attributes:

  • boolean

  • string

  • textarea

  • url

  • picklist

  • reference

  • phone

  • email

  • id

Delete custom field mappings

If you no longer want to sync data between a CE property and Salesforce field in a custom field mapping, you can delete the mapping.

Please note: only custom field mappings can be deleted in CE.

FAQ

What happens after I map a field?

CE imports the field data when you enroll a lead or contact report from Salesforce to CE.

What happens after I change the mapping of an existing field mapping?

CE imports the data from the new mapping when you enroll a lead or contact report from Salesforce to 6sense Conversational Email.

What if I don’t map the Lead Owner field?

If you skip mapping the Lead Owner field, or the field is not mapped successfully to the right type, CE round-robins qualified leads to the list of sales reps in CE, ignoring the pre-assigned Lead Owner in your Salesforce settings.

Refer to Map the Lead Owner field in CE to Salesforce.