Salesforce Configure Price Quote


Process description

The Lead-to-Order process is an end to end process which starts with a potential customer's intent to buy a product, up to the fulfillment of this sale. See the illustration below.

Lead Qualification

Once a lead is generated, the lead will go through a qualification process. The objective of this process is to determine whether the lead is most likely to make an actual purchase. Once the lead is qualified this will turn into an actual opportunity for a sale. In Salesforce, this is tracked via the Lead object.

Opportunity Management

As a lead qualifies into an opportunity, the sales team will work on the opportunity together with the potential customer, in order to identify the need and suggest an appropriate product or service which will meet this need. In case the opportunity is won, this will generate one or more orders in order to fulfill the won opportunity. In Salesforce, this is tracked via the Opportunity object, and the Quote object.

Quote Management Once an opportunity moves forward with a customer, products and services will be offered through quotes. In Salesforce CPQ the Quote object contains information about the products and services a customer wants to buy. You can create as many quotes as you want on a given opportunity. However many quotes your opportunity contains, only one can be designated as primary.

Order Management

Within Order management, the order lifecycle is maintained, including order capture, and fulfillment. In Salesforce, the Order object is used to maintain this process. One quote may have multiple orders if the configuration is set in CPQ package.

Contract Management

Contracts are used when orders included at least one subscription product under a contract-based renewal model. Salesforce CPQ creates a contract record for them.

Optionally, this may then extend and generate an invoice and receivables, in what is called the Lead-to-Cash process.

Available tags & due dates

The following tags are available by default.

Tag Description
Amended opportunity Once a contract is amended a new opportunity is created to keep track of that new piece in the contract. These opportunities are automatically created.
Approval process started multiple times Multiple approvals may exist for one object, however if the same approval process is triggered multiple times, there might be inefficiencies to review. Applies for all objects (Lead, Opportunity, Quote, Order, Contract).
Multiple Owner Changes Applies for all objects (Lead, Opportunity, Quote, Order, Contract), reflects that the owner of that object has been changed multiple times and that may be justified (vacations, escalations) or may require attention.
Opportunity amount reduced Opportunity Amount was changed to a value less than the original value. Represents an opportunity which is losing value.
Opportunity close date postponed An opportunity is getting delayed according to its original close date, which means the opportunity might require attention.
Primary quote changed multiple times The primary quote in an opportunity is the one that can turn into an order. There might be inefficiencies to review if these changes happen constantly.
Multiple users for same activity An opportunity has the same activity executed multiple times by different users.

The following due dates are available by default.

Due date Description
Original Opportunity Close Date Identifies original expected close date for the opportunity and verifies against the actual close date.

Extraction

This app template uses Salesforce Sales Cloud with Salesforce CPQ package as source system. The CPQ package must be installed in the Salesforce Org.

Extraction for the system is done using CData Sync. To set-up the extraction, make sure you have a valid license for CData Sync and have installed CData Sync.

System configuration

To be able to extract data from Salesforce the following configuration in Salesforce is required.

Field history tracking

Depending on which fields have field history tracked, different change events will be recorded. Field history tracking can be configured from each object within Salesforce setup. Recommended minimal setup is having the following object and fields tracked:

By default, Field History is disabled per object. In order to setup Field History Tracking for an object, the following Salesforce manual contains a step by step instruction: Salesforce - Track Field History for Standard Objects. Note: if a field is activated for tracking, the values will be tracked from that moment onwards. Any changes before that point in time will not be saved. As of February 2022, Salesforce retains field history data for up to 18 months through the org and up to 24 months via the API, and Field history tracking data doesn't count towards Salesforce org's data storage limits.

In case the history needs to be stored for a longer period of time, Field Audit Trail must be activated. This allows copying of history data into a separate big data object and allows storage for up to 10 years.

Campaign information

The user must be marked as "Marketing User" in the user settings in order to extract Campaign information.

Multiple orders per quote

To allow users to create multiple orders from a quote, "Allow Multiple Orders" in CPQ Order Package Settings must be selected.

API Access

In order to connect via CData, the user establishing the connection must be API Enabled, and must have appropriate read permissions on each of the objects which are being extracted. All fields included in the input tables must be visible for the user extracting the data. In case any fields are not visible, and may not be made visible, permissions should be granted to the user, or a profile with permissions should be used to extract the data.

Additionally, a security token should be generated for the user. This can be done by resetting the current security token in your personal settings, see Salesforce - Reset Your Security Token. The security token is required to establish the connection to Salesforce via CData Sync.

Salesforce objects

The Salesforce Configure Price Quote app template works on the process starting on the marketing campaign generation, up to the generation of customer orders, if the order includes subscription products the process adds contracts to track the subscriptions.

This includes processing of the following Salesforce transactional objects:

Additionally, the following additional objects are used to add additional information:

In order to allow Currency conversion and to calculate amounts using historical exchange rates, Effective dated currency should be enabled in the Salesforce org, and historical exchange rates should be loaded into the system. The following object will become available after the feature is enabled:

*CurrencyType, DatedConversionRate objects are by default disabled in Salesforce orgs. By default, these will not be considered in the transformations. If the feature Effective dated currency is enabled in the Salesforce org, the transformation and related logic can be enabled by using DBT variables. Alternatively, the information for this feature can also be loaded manually using seed files.

Setting up the source connection in CData Sync

Setting up the destination connection in CData Sync

To set up the destination connection, follow the steps as defined in Create a destination connection (Automation Cloud). Note: If you are using Automation Suite, make sure to select AUTOMATION SUITE as the DELIVERY option and select the correct version of Automation Suite you are using.

Creating the extraction job in CData Sync

To create the Job in CData make sure to follow the steps below.

Advanced job settings

In the Advanced tab in the Job Settings panel, define the following settings:

Setting up environment variables in the extraction job

Important: Make sure you edit the Pre-job Event.

CData Sync allows the use of environment variables in order to drive specific extraction logic in each query.

Variable Description Comment
start_extraction_date Defines first date for which data will be extracted. Mandatory
end_extraction_date Last date for which data will be extracted.

In order to setup the environment variables:

Step Action
1 Go to the Events tab in the Job Settings panel of the job you are creating
2 Edit the Pre-Job Event section to add the code displayed below after <!-- Code goes here -- >. Do not modify the api:info details that are shown by default.
3 Click on Save Changes.
<!-- Modify environment variables here. --> <!-- Variable start_extraction_date must be populated.--> <api:set attr="out.env:start_extraction_date" value="2022-01-01" /> <!-- In case a specific end date is needed, replace the value string with the required date in yyyy-MM-dd format. --> <!-- i.e api:set attr="out.env:end_extraction_date" value="2022-02-01" --> <api:set attr="out.env:end_extraction_date" value="[null | now() | todate('yyyy-MM-dd')]" /> <api:push item="out" />

In order to modify the environment variables, modify the values within the Events tab. By default, end_extraction_date will default to today's date. start_extraction_date must always be populated.

Setting up the data ingestion call

After the data has been successfully loaded, the Process Mining platform needs to start the data ingestion process. This is done by calling the End of Upload API. In order to set this up, follow the steps below:

Step Action
1 Go to the Events tab in the Job Settings panel of the job you are creating
2 Edit the Post-Job Event section to add the code displayed below after <!-- Code goes here -- >. Do not modify the api:info details that are shown by default.
3 Fill out the End of Upload API with the value provided.
4 In case you need a debugging log for this call, uncomment the two lines provided in the code below and provide a location for the log file.
5 Click on Save Changes.
<api:set attr="http.url" value="END_OF_UPLOAD_API"/> <!-- <api:set attr="http.verbosity" value="5"/> --> <!-- <api:set attr="http.logfile" value="D:/mydir/cdata_log.txt"/> --> <api:call op="httpPost" in="http"/>

Table Replication

Once the job is correctly setup, click on Add Custom Query under the Tasks tab and paste the following queries (each query needs to maintain the semicolon at the end). Make sure you save all changes.

Default Extraction

The following set of queries should be used for the default scenario where Multi Currency, Dated Conversion Rates, Person Accounts and Record types are not used and are disabled. In case any of these are used, please add the scripts in the Alternative Scenarios section.

REPLICATE [Account] SELECT [Id], [AccountSource], [BillingCountry], [BillingState], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Industry], [Name], [OwnerId], [Ownership], [ParentId], [Rating], [Type] FROM [Account]; REPLICATE [Campaign] SELECT [Id], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Name], [OwnerId], [ParentId], [Status], [Type] FROM [Campaign] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [CampaignMember] SELECT [Id], [CampaignId], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [LeadId], [Status] FROM [CampaignMember] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [Lead] SELECT [Id], [ConvertedOpportunityId], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Name], [OwnerId] FROM [Lead] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [Opportunity] SELECT [Id], [AccountId], [Amount], FORMAT([CloseDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd') as [CloseDate], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [ForecastCategory], [IsClosed], [IsWon], FORMAT([LastStageChangeDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [LastStageChangeDate], [LeadSource], [Name], [OwnerId], [Probability], [StageName], [Type], [SBQQ__AmendedContract__c] FROM [Opportunity] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [RecordType] SELECT [Id], [Name] FROM [RecordType]; REPLICATE [User] SELECT [Id], [Department], [Name], [UserType] FROM [User]; REPLICATE [ProcessDefinition] SELECT [Id], [Name], [TableEnumOrId], [Type] FROM [ProcessDefinition] WHERE [Type] = 'Approval'; REPLICATE [ProcessInstance] SELECT [Id], [TargetObjectId], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [ProcessDefinitionId], [Status] FROM [ProcessInstance] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [ProcessInstanceStep] SELECT [Id], [Comments], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [ProcessInstanceId], [StepStatus] FROM [ProcessInstanceStep] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [SBQQ__Quote__c] SELECT [Id], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Name], [SBQQ__Opportunity2__c] FROM [SBQQ__Quote__c] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [Order] SELECT [Id], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Name], [OpportunityId], [SBQQ__Quote__c] FROM [Order] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [OrderItem] SELECT [OrderId], [SBQQ__Contract__c] FROM [OrderItem] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}'); REPLICATE [Contract] SELECT [Id], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [ContractNumber], [CreatedById], [OwnerId] FROM [Contract]; REPLICATE [LeadHistory] WITH ReplicateStartDate = '{env:start_extraction_date}', replicateenddate = '{env:end_extraction_date}' SELECT [Id], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Field], [LeadId], [NewValue], [OldValue], [DataType] FROM [LeadHistory] WHERE ((((([Field] = 'Status') OR ([Field] = 'Rating')) OR ([Field] = 'Owner')) AND ([DataType] != 'EntityId'))); REPLICATE [OpportunityFieldHistory] WITH ReplicateStartDate = '{env:start_extraction_date}', replicateenddate = '{env:end_extraction_date}' SELECT [Id], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Field], [NewValue], [OldValue], [OpportunityId], [DataType] FROM [OpportunityFieldHistory] WHERE (((((([Field] = 'Amount') OR ([Field] = 'StageName')) OR ([Field] = 'Owner')) OR ([Field] = 'CloseDate')) AND ([DataType] != 'EntityId'))); REPLICATE [SBQQ__Quote__History] WITH ReplicateStartDate = '{env:start_extraction_date}', replicateenddate = '{env:end_extraction_date}' SELECT [Id], [ParentId], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Field], [NewValue], [OldValue], [DataType] FROM [SBQQ__Quote__History] WHERE ((((([Field] = 'SBQQ__Status__c') OR ([Field] = 'SBQQ__ExpirationDate__c')) OR ([Field] = 'SBQQ__Primary__c')) OR ([Field] = 'SBQQ__SubscriptionTerm__c')) OR ([Field] = 'SBQQ__SalesRep__c')) AND ([DataType] != 'EntityId'); REPLICATE [OrderHistory] WITH ReplicateStartDate = '{env:start_extraction_date}', ReplicateEndDate = '{env:end_extraction_date}' SELECT [Id], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Field], [NewValue], [OldValue], [OrderId], [DataType] FROM [OrderHistory] WHERE ((([Field] = 'Status') OR ([Field] = 'Owner')) OR ([Field] = 'TotalAmount')) AND ([DataType] != 'EntityId'); REPLICATE [ContractHistory] WITH ReplicateStartDate = '{env:start_extraction_date}', replicateenddate = '{env:end_extraction_date}' SELECT [Id], [ContractId], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Field], [NewValue], [OldValue], [DataType] FROM [ContractHistory] WHERE ((([Field] = 'Status') OR ([Field] = 'Owner')) OR ([Field] = 'ContractTerm')) AND ([DataType] != 'EntityId');

Note regarding CData Salesforce Provider Version 21.0.8097.0 When a table has an _Incremental Check Column_ field predefined in CData Sync, the SQL query cannot use the same date field in both statements (WITH and WHERE) at the same time. If version 21.0.8097.0 (or an older version) of CData is used, the date filtering should be done in the WHERE clause and should be removed from the WITH statement.

Alternative Scenarios

The following scenarios can be used in combination with each other:

Multi Currency and Dated Conversion Rates are enabled in Salesforce Org

In case multi currency is used in the Salesforce org, add the following queries:

REPLICATE [CurrencyType] SELECT [Id], [IsCorporate], [IsoCode] FROM [CurrencyType] WHERE [IsCorporate] = 1; REPLICATE [DatedConversionRate] SELECT [Id], [IsoCode], FORMAT([NextStartDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd') as [NextStartDate], FORMAT([StartDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd') as [StartDate], [ConversionRate] FROM [DatedConversionRate];

Additionally, the Opportunity query must be changed to the following to add the CurrencyIsoCode field in the query.

REPLICATE [Opportunity] SELECT [Id], [AccountId], [Amount], FORMAT([CloseDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd') as [CloseDate], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [CurrencyIsoCode], [ForecastCategory], [IsClosed], [IsWon], FORMAT([LastStageChangeDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [LastStageChangeDate], [LeadSource], [Name], [OwnerId], [Probability], [StageName], [Type], [SBQQ__AmendedContract__c] FROM [Opportunity] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}');

Person Accounts enabled in Salesforce Org

In Case Person Accounts (field IsPersonAccount) are used - replace the Accounts query with the following query. This query will add the field IsPersonAccount in the Accounts extraction.

REPLICATE [Account] SELECT [Id], [AccountSource], [BillingCountry], [BillingState], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [Industry], [IsPersonAccount], [Name], [OwnerId], [Ownership], [ParentId], [Rating], [Type] FROM [Account];

Record Types are enabled in Salesforce Org

In case Record Types are used the Opportunity query must be amended to add the RecordTypeId field in the query. The following replicate shows Opportunity with RecordTypeId and CurrencyIsoCode values added.

REPLICATE [Opportunity] SELECT [Id], [AccountId], [Amount], FORMAT([CloseDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd') as [CloseDate], [CreatedById], FORMAT([CreatedDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [CreatedDate], [CurrencyIsoCode], [ForecastCategory], [IsClosed], [IsWon], FORMAT([LastStageChangeDate], 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') as [LastStageChangeDate], [LeadSource], [Name], [OwnerId], [Probability], [RecordTypeId], [StageName], [Type], [SBQQ__AmendedContract__c] FROM [Opportunity] WHERE ([CreatedDate] >= '{env:start_extraction_date}') AND ([CreatedDate] <= '{env:end_extraction_date}');

Input fields

The following tables include the list of fields per input table, their description, data type to be used when formatting the input and the filter flag to identify those that are being used to filter data.

Input types

Below is an overview of the different field types and their default format settings.

Field type Description
boolean true, false, 1, 0
date yyyy-mm-dd
datetime yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss[.ms], where [.ms] is optional.
double Decimal separator: . (dot); thousand separator: none
integer Thousand separator: none
text N/A

Input tables & fields

Account

Represents an individual account, which is an organization or person involved with your business (such as customers, competitors, and partners).

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Account Identifier (Primary Key). text
AccountSource The source of the account record. For example, Advertisement, Data.com, or Trade Show. The source is selected from a pick list of available values, which are set by an administrator. text
BillingCountry Details for the billing address of this account. text
BillingState Details for the billing address of this account. text
CreatedById User ID who created the account. text
CreatedDate Date in which the account was created. datetime
Industry An industry associated with this account. text
IsPersonAccount* Indicates whether this account has a record type of Person Account (true) or not (false). This field is not available by default in Salesforce, but is setup by Salesforce when requested for B2C environments. This attribute can be enabled / disabled using the use_is_person_account DBT variable. boolean
Name Name of the account. If the account has a record type of Person Account: This value is the concatenation of the FirstName, MiddleName, LastName, and Suffix of the associated person contact. text
OwnerId The ID of the user who currently owns this account. text
Ownership Ownership type for the account, for example Private, Public, or Subsidiary. text
ParentId ID of the parent object, if any. text
Rating The account's prospect rating, for example Hot, Warm, or Cold. text
Type Type of account, for example, Customer, Competitor, or Partner. text

Campaign

Represents and tracks a marketing campaign, such as a direct mail promotion, webinar, or trade show.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Campaign Identifier (Primary Key). text
CreatedById User ID who created the campaign. text
CreatedDate Date in which the campaign was created. datetime time based filter
Name Name of the campaign. text
OwnerId ID of the user who owns this campaign. text
ParentId ID of the parent Campaign record, if any. text
Status Status of the campaign, for example, Planned, In Progress. text
Type Type of campaign, for example, Direct Mail or Referral Program. text

CampaignMember

Represents the association between a campaign and either a lead or a contact.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Campaign Member Identifier (Primary Key). text
CampaignId Required. ID of the Campaign to which this Lead or Contact is associated. text
CreatedById User ID who created the campaign member record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the campaign member record was created. datetime time based filter
LeadId Required. ID of the Lead who is associated with a Campaign. text
Status Controls the HasResponded flag on this object. In the Salesforce user interface, Marketing users can define valid status values for the Status picklist. text

Contract

Represents the subscription products that customers have purchased. The Contract store information on the subscriptions that sales reps have quoted or ordered.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Contract Identifier (Primary Key). text
CreatedById User ID who created the contract record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the contract record was created. datetime time based filter
ContractNumber Auto Number assigned to the Contract once is created. text
OwnerId ID of the user who owns this contract. text

ContractHistory

History for tracked fields of Contract.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Contract History Identifier (Primary Key). text
ContractId Related Contract Record Id. text
CreatedById User ID who created the history record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the history record was created. datetime time based filter
DataType Data Type for the field which was modified. text <> EntityId
Field Field which was modified on the contract record. text in (Status, Owner, ContractTerm)
NewValue Value after change. text
OldValue Value before change. text

CurrencyType

Represents the currencies used by an organization for which the Multi-currency feature is enabled.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Currency Type record identifier (Primary Key). text
IsCorporate Indicates whether this currency type is the corporate currency (true) or not (false). Label is Corporate Currency. All other currency conversion rates are applied against this corporate currency. boolean = 1
IsoCode ISO code of the currency. Must be one of the valid alphabetic, three-letter currency ISO codes defined by the ISO 4217 standard, such as USD, GBP, or JPY. text

DatedConversionRate

Represents the dated exchange rates used by an organization for which the Multi-currency and the effective dated currency features are enabled.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Dated Conversion Rate record identifier (Primary Key). text
ConversionRate Conversion rate of this currency type against the corporate currency. double
IsoCode ISO code of the currency. Must be one of the valid alphabetic, three-letter currency ISO codes defined by the ISO 4217 standard, such as USD, GBP, or JPY. text
NextStartDate The date on which the next effective dated exchange rate will start. Effectively the day after the end date for this exchange rate. date
StartDate The date on which the effective dated exchange rate starts. date

Lead

Represents a prospect or lead.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Lead Identifier (Primary Key). text
ConvertedOpportunityId Object reference ID that points to the opportunity into which the lead has been converted. text
CreatedById User ID who created the campaign member record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the campaign member record was created. datetime time based filter
Name Concatenation of FirstName, MiddleName, LastName, and Suffix up to 203 characters, including white spaces. text
OwnerId ID of the lead's owner. text

LeadHistory

History for tracked fields of Lead.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Lead History Identifier (Primary Key). text
LeadId Related Lead Record Id. text
CreatedById User ID who created the history record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the history record was created. datetime time based filter
DataType Data Type for the field which was modified. text <> EntityId
Field Field which was modified on the lead record. text in (Status, Rating, Owner)
NewValue Value after change. text
OldValue Value before change. text

Opportunity (Main Object)

Represents an opportunity, which is a sale or pending deal. This will be the main Case Identifier for the Process Mining model.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Opportunity Identifier (Primary Key). text
AccountId ID of the account associated with this opportunity. text
Amount Estimated total sale amount. For opportunities with products, the amount is the sum of the related products. double
CloseDate Date when the opportunity is expected to close. date
CreatedById User ID who created the opportunity record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the opportunity record was created. datetime time based filter
CurrencyIsoCode Available only for organizations with the Multi-currency feature enabled. Contains the ISO code for any currency allowed by the organization. text
ForecastCategory Used to group opportunities for forecasting. It is implied, but not directly controlled, by the StageName field. text
IsClosed Boolean value which states whether the opportunity is closed. boolean
IsWon Boolean value which states whether the opportunity is won. boolean
LastStageChangeDate Shows timestamp in which the stage was changed last. Present starting from Salesforce REST API version 52.0. datetime
LeadSource Source of this opportunity, such as Advertisement or Trade Show. text
Name A name for this opportunity. text
OwnerId ID of the User who has been assigned to work this opportunity. text
Probability Percentage of estimated confidence in closing the opportunity. It is implied, but not directly controlled, by the StageName field. double
RecordTypeId* ID of the record type assigned to this object. In order for this field to appear on the opportunity object, there needs to be at least one record type for opportunities. text
SBQQ__AmendedContract__c ID of the related contract that was amended. The origin for the amendment opportunity. text
StageName Current stage of this record. The StageName field controls several other fields on an opportunity. text
Type Type of opportunity. For example, Existing Business or New Business. text

OpportunityFieldHistory

Represents the history of changes to the values in the fields of an opportunity.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Opportunity History Identifier (Primary Key). text
OpportunityId Related Opportunity Record Id. text
CreatedById User ID who created the history record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the history record was created. datetime time based filter
DataType Data Type for the field which was modified. text <> EntityId
Field Field which was modified on the opportunity record. text in (StageName, Amount, Owner, CloseDate)
NewValue Value after change. text
OldValue Value before change. text

Order

Represents an order associated with a quote, an order record track the products from customers purchases.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Order Identifier (Primary Key). text
CreatedById User ID who created the order. text
CreatedDate Date in which the quote was order. datetime time based filter
Name Name for the order. text
OpportunityId Related Opportunity Record Id. text
SBQQ__Quote__c ID for the quote associated with the order. text

OrderItem

Represents an order product which is a product or service that is provided to a customer according to an associated order for each of the quote lines.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
OrderId ID for the order associated with the order product. text
SBQQ__Contract__c The contract of the subscription that is created from this order product. text

Note: Filter in OrderItem is done by CreatedDate field which is not being extracted

OrderHistory

Represents historical information about changes that have been made to the standard fields of the associated order, or to any custom fields with history tracking enabled.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Order History Identifier (Primary Key). text
OrderId Related order Record Id. text
CreatedById User ID who created the history record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the history record was created. datetime time based filter
DataType Data Type for the field which was modified. text <> EntityId
Field Field which was modified on the order record. text in (Status, Owner, TotalAmount)
NewValue Value after change. text
OldValue Value before change. text

Quote

Represents the Quote object that stores all the details of the products and prices quoted for an opportunity. Quotes are created from and synced with opportunities, and emailed as PDFs to customers.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Quote Identifier (Primary Key). text
CreatedById User ID who created the quote. text
CreatedDate Date in which the quote was created. datetime time based filter
Name System-generated number for referencing the quote. text
SBQQ__Opportunity2__c ID for the opportunity associated with the quote. text

QuoteHistory

Represents historical information about changes that have been made to the standard fields of the associated quote, or to any custom fields with history tracking enabled.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Quote History Identifier (Primary Key). text
ParentId Related quote Record Id. text
CreatedById User ID who created the history record. text
CreatedDate Date in which the history record was created. datetime time based filter
DataType Data Type for the field which was modified. text <> EntityId
Field Field which was modified on the quote record. text in (SBQQ__Primary__c, SBQQ__Status__c, SBQQ__SubscriptionTerm__c) or in (SBQQ__SalesRep__c, SBQQ__ExpirationDate__c) and OldValue not null
NewValue Value after change. text
OldValue Value before change. text When "Field" takes the following values, OldValue cannot be null:'SBQQ__SalesRep__c', 'SBQQ__ExpirationDate__c'

ProcessDefinition

Represents the definition of a single approval process.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Process Definition Identifier (Primary Key). text
Name The unique process name, used internally. text
TableEnumOrId Specifies the object associated with the approval process, such as Account or Contact. text
Type This field shows the type of process. In this case the only type that is of interest for the logic are the Approval types. text = Approval

ProcessInstance

Represents an instance of a single, end-to-end approval process.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Process Instance Identifier (Primary Key). text
CreatedById User ID who created the process instance. text
CreatedDate Date in which the process instance was created. datetime time based filter
ProcessDefinitionId The ID of this approval process instance. This is a relationship field. text
Status The status of this approval process instance, for example Started, Pending, or Approved. text
TargetObjectId ID of the object affected by this approval process instance. This is a polymorphic relationship field. text

ProcessInstanceStep

Represents one work item in an approval process (ProcessInstance).

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Process Instance Step Identifier (Primary Key). text
Comments Limit: 4,000 bytes. text
CreatedById User ID who created the process instance step. text
CreatedDate Date in which the process instance step was created. datetime time based filter
ProcessInstanceId ID of the ProcessInstance that this approval step belongs to. This is a relationship field. text
StepStatus The current status of this approval step. Examples are Approved, Fault, Held, NoResponse, Pending, Reassigned, Rejected, Removed, Started. text

RecordType

Represents a record type, which might define a different sales process for opportunities.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id Record Type Identifier (Primary Key). text
Name Label of the record type in the user interface. text

User

Represents each user in the Salesforce organization.

Field Description Data Type Filtering
Id User Identifier (Primary Key). text
Department The company department associated with the user. text
Name Concatenation of FirstName and LastName. text
UserType The category of user license. text

Configuring transformations

Seed files

Automation_estimates_raw

This seed file is used to add automation-related properties to each activity, used for the automation potential dashboard. For more information, see Simulating Automation Potential.

Field Type Description
Activity Text Display name for the activity
Event_cost Double Cost associated with the activity
Event_processing_time Integer Processing time associated with the activity (in milliseconds)

Due_dates_configuration_raw

This seed file is used to define properties for the due dates. For more information, see Due Dates.

Field Type Description
Due_date Text The name of the due date
Due_date_type Text The Due date type
Fixed_costs Boolean An indication whether costs are fixed or time based
Cost Double Fixed costs: The amount of costs. Variable costs: The amount of costs per Time and Time_type
Time Integer A number indicating the amount of time in case of time-based costs
Time_type Text Type of time period for cost calculations. This can be any of the following values: day, hour, minute, second or millisecond

Automated_users_raw

This file is used to set the users that are automated.

Field Type Description
Automated_users Text User that is considered automated.

Dbt variables

Below is an overview of the variables that must be configured based on the Salesforce configuration for the end customer. These variables are defined in the dbt_project.yml file.

Variable Type Description
conversion_rate_start_date string Specifies the starting date for currency conversions, when there are no prior historic exchange rates. This replaces the null value that is used in Salesforce.
use_is_person_account boolean Defines whether the IsPersonAccount attribute will be used. This should be disabled in Salesforce Orgs where there are no Person Accounts. Setting this to true will enable the attribute to being queried in the transformations, and will enable associated tests. Default is false.
use_currency_conversion boolean Defines whether the multi currency conversion will be used. This should be disabled in Salesforce Orgs where multi currency is not used. Setting this to true will enable currency conversion. Default is false.
use_record_types boolean Defines whether the record type conversions will be used. This should be disabled in Salesforce Orgs where record types are not used. Setting this to true will enable record types to be queried and added to the transformations. Default is false.

Design specifications

Objects

Salesforce already treats each object as an individual object, however the objects are joined to additional master data in order to provide additional information.

Object Input Data
Lead Lead, User
Opportunity Opportunity, Accounts, User, RecordType
Quote Quote, User
Order Order, User
Order_item OrderItem
Contract Contract, User

Object relationship diagram

The following shows all objects that were used for the process. However not all of them would be converted as objects as they were merely used for connecting the objects that actually had activities tracked in the process.

Activities

Object Activity Description
Lead Creation Lead is generated in the system. Identified based on the CreateDate field on the Lead object.
Lead Add to Campaign Lead is added to a marketing campaign for tracking. Identified based on the CreateDate field on the CampaignMember object for each LeadId.
Lead Status Change* Lead moves from different status. Standard status in Salesforce are: Open, Contacted, Qualified, Unqualified. Identified based on the Old and New values for field = Status on the LeadHistory object.
Lead Approvals* Any approval process which was submitted. This may be generated by any custom configuration the customer has.
Lead Additional Field Changes* Depending on fields tracked on the object, the event will be record as a change activity. In the standard connector, Owner and Rating are tracked, but may be expanded depending on customer configuration. Identified based on records on the LeadHistory object.
Opportunity Creation Opportunity is generated in the system. Identified based on the CreateDate field on the Opportunity object.
Opportunity Stage Change* Opportunity moves from different status. Standard status in Salesforce are: Prospecting, Qualification, Needs Analysis, Value Proposition, ID Decision Makers, Perception Analysis, Proposal / Price Quote, Negotiation / Review, Closed Won, Closed Lost. Identified based on the Old and New values for field = StageName on the OpportunityFieldHistory object.
Opportunity Additional Changes* Depending on fields tracked on the object, the event will be record as a change activity. In the standard connector, Owner, Close Date and Amount are tracked, but may be expanded depending on customer configuration. Identified based on values on the OpportunityFieldHistory object.
Opportunity Approvals* Any approval process which was submitted. This may be generated by any custom configuration the customer has.
Quote Creation Quote is generated in the system. Identified based on the CreateDate field on the Quote.
Quote Approvals* Any approval process which was submitted. This may be generated by any custom configuration the customer has.
Quote Status Change* Quote moves from different status. Standard status in Salesforce are: Draft, In Review, Approved, Denied, Presented, Accepted, Rejected. Identified based on the Old and New values for field = Status on the QuoteHistory object.
Quote Additional Changes* Depending on fields tracked on the object, the event will be record as a change activity. In the standard connector, Primary quote, subscription terms, Sales Rep and Expiration date are tracked, but may be expanded depending on customer configuration. Identified based on the values on the QuoteHistory object.
Order Creation Order is generated in the system. Identified based on the CreateDate field on the Order.
Order Status Change* Order moves from different status. Standard status in Salesforce are: Draft, Activated. Identified based on the Old and New values for field = Status on the OrderHistory object.
Order Additional Changes* Depending on fields tracked on the object, the event will be record as a change activity. In the standard connector, Owner, and TotalAmount are tracked, but may be expanded depending on customer configuration. Identified based on the values on the OrderHistory object.
Order Approvals* Any approval process which was submitted. This may be generated by any custom configuration the customer has.
Contract Creation Contract is generated in the system. Identified based on the CreateDate field on the Contract.
Contract Status Change* Contract moves from different status. Standard status in Salesforce are: Draft, In Approval Process, Activated. Identified based on the Old and New values for field = Status on the ContractHistory object.
Contract Additional Changes* Depending on fields tracked on the object, the event will be record as a change activity. In the standard connector, Owner, and Contract term are tracked, but may be expanded depending on customer configuration. Identified based on the values on the ContractHistory object.
Contract Approvals* Any approval process which was submitted. This may be generated by any custom configuration the customer has.

*The actual activity names will depend on the values defined on the customer Salesforce organization.

Amount of events

All contracts that get amended will generate automatically a new Opportunity_id that will be linked to the former. Therefore, all activities happening to the contract will be included in both case_id's: the original opportunity and the amended one. That can be seen when comparing the total amount of records in Events_all table vs Event_log_base table, thus it will be correct to have more records in the Event_log_base table.

Design details

Known limitations

Troubleshooting

Below is a list of common problems and their solutions.

General
Object Specific