This documentation supports the 20.08 version of BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management.To view the documentation for the previous version, select 20.02 from the Product version menu.

Salesforce Service Cloud integration reference


To establish integration with Salesforce Service Cloud, configure the following connectors, flows, and connector targets. You need to set up tenant level configurations. BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker provides out-of-the-box mappings and application level configurations required for the integration. After you complete the integration, you can broker tickets from ITSM to Salesforce Service Cloud, sync Salesforce Service Cloud ticket details to ITSM and so on. Each flow in the list of flows is essentially a feature that you can use. Depending upon your use case, you might have to configure multiple flows. BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker logically chains the flows and connector processes to complete the feature.

List of connectors for integration with Service Cloud

You must configure the following connectors when setting up integration with Service Cloud. These connectors are integration points for the respective applications. For instance, to send the data from BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to Service Cloud, you must configure a flow from Multi-Cloud connector to ServiceCloud connector.

ITSM connector
  • Configuration
    If you are integrating BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker with an on-premises instance of ITSM, enter the following values:

    Field

    Value

    Site

    Select the site that you created for Remedy.

    AR server

    Enter the name of your on-premises AR System server.

    AR server port

    Enter the port number for your on-premises AR System server.

  • Account
    Add a ITSM user account that has permissions to view business service requests and permissions to update incidents, change, or problem requests.


Multi-Cloud connector
  • Configuration
    While activating BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker, BMC configures the Multi-Cloud connector. Do not modify the default Multi-Cloud connector configuration.
  • Account
    BMC sets up the account for the Multi-Cloud connector.
    Click reauthenticate.PNGto re-authenticate after you have changed the password for your tenant administrator user account in BMC Helix Innovation Studio.
    For information about changing the user password, see Creating or modifying Person data.


ServiceCloud connector

  • Configuration
    Not applicable
  • Account
    Add a Service Cloud user that has permission to view and update cases. Ensure that you add a user account that is at the highest level in the role hierarchy, so that all attachments from Service Cloud are visible. if you do not have a role hierarchy, ensure that you create a role hierarchy and assign the appropriate roles to your users (agents) who create cases.


SMTP Email connector
  • Configuration
    To send email notifications for errors, specify values for the following fields:

    Field

    Value

    Name

    Enter a name for the connector configuration.

    Site

    Select the appropriate site for your email server.

    Connection type

    Select the type of connection for your email server.

  • Account
    Add an email account to be used for sending error notifications.

List of flows for integration with Service Cloud

You can configure the following flows when setting up integration with Service Cloud. Each flow is self descriptive, for example to create an incident in ITSM from Service Cloud, you must configure Create Incident from Service Cloud flow.


Based on the type of comment (feed item, feed comment, or case comment) that you want to add in a Salesforce Service Cloud case, use the out-of-the-box flows. For example, to view feed items only, you enable the flows that are related to feed item only. Also, in a ITSM incident, the latest comment from a Service Cloud case is displayed at the top. For example, comment A was added at 10:00 A.M. and comment B was added at 11:00 A.M. In the ITSM incident, first, comment A is displayed and then comment B is displayed.


Create Brokered Incident flow
  • Trigger
    In the Service field, specify the name of the Remedy business service for incident brokering. Incidents will not be brokered as expected if you do not specify the Service.
    serviceTrigger.PNG

    Note

    The business service is the Technology Provider value that you specified when you configured the vendor data.

  • Field Mapping

    Do not change the value of the following out-of-the-box field mappings:

    Field

    Value

    Company

    Company

    Service

    Service

    incidentNumber

    Incident Number

    Note

    You can change the following out-of-the-box field mappings:

    • Summary
    • Priority

    However, we recommend that you retain the existing mappings. If you change the Priority field mapping, you need to set the transformations for source and target field values in the flow.


Create Incident Activity Note flow
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Shared with Vendor

    True

  • Field Mapping

    Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.

    Field

    Value

    post_type

    comment#vendor

    ticketNumber

    Incident Number

    Attachment Object 1.name

    Attachment 1 filename

    Attachment Object 1.content

    Attachment 1

    Attachment Object 2.name

    Attachment 2 filename

    Attachment Object 2.content

    Attachment 2

    Attachment Object 3.name

    Attachment 3 filename

    Attachment Object 3.content

    Attachment 3

    Note

    You can change the out-of-the-box field mapping for the text field. Default value is set to Notes.

    However, BMC recommends that you retain the existing mapping.


Create Incident Activity Note with Author flow (ITSM 9.1.06 or later)
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Shared with Vendor

    True

  • Field Mapping

    Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.

    Field

    Value

    post_type

    comment#vendor

    ticketNumber

    Incident Number

    Author

    Full name

    Attachment Object 1.name

    Attachment 1 filename

    Attachment Object 1.content

    Attachment 1

    Attachment Object 2.name

    Attachment 2 filename

    Attachment Object 2.content

    Attachment 2

    Attachment Object 3.name

    Attachment 3 filename

    Attachment Object 3.content

    Attachment 3

    Note

    You can change the out-of-the-box field mapping for the text field. Default value is set to Notes.

    However, BMC recommends that you retain the existing mapping.

By default, the Create Incident Activity Note flow is used. Instead of the default flow, if you want to use the Create Incident Activity Note with Author flow, you must make changes to the flow.

For more information about using the flow, see Updating flows.


Create Incident from Service Cloud flow
  • Trigger
    Retain the values that are available out-of-the-box.
  • Field Mapping
    Retain the values that are available out-of-the-box


Sync Service Cloud Case flow
  • Trigger
    Retain the values that are available out-of-the-box.
  • Field Mapping
     
    Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.

    Field

    Value

    Status

    Status (transformation set as Closed > resolved)

    Vendor

    Service Cloud

    Vendor Ticket Id

    Case Number

    Vendor Ticket Properties

    Retain the out-of-the-box properties mapping.


Sync Service Cloud Case Comment flow
  • Trigger
    Retain the values that are available out-of-the-box.
  • Field Mapping
    Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.

    Field

    Value

    text

    Retain the prefix, "Service Cloud added a note"

    post_type

    comment#remedy

    ticket_type

    incident

    Vendor Ticket Id

    Parent

    commentId

    Case Comment ID


Sync Service Cloud Chatter feed comment flow
  • Trigger
    Retain the values that are available out-of-the-box.
  • Field Mapping
    Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.

    Field

    Value

    text

    Comment Body

    post_type

    comment#remedy

    ticket_type

    incident

    Vendor

    Service Cloud

    vendorTicketId

    Parent

    commentId

    Feed Comment ID

    Author

    Created By

    Attachment Object 1 name

    Path On Client

    Attachment Object 1 contents

    Version Data


Multi-Cloud Worklog to Service Cloud Chatter feed comment flow
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Condition is

    Retain the webhook condition

    Attachment Group Id

    is empty

  • Field Mapping
    Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.

    Field

    Value

    Comment Body

    Remedy user, Author, added a work note, CommentText

    Parent Type

    Case

    Parent

    associatedGUID


Multi-Cloud Worklog with attachment to Service Cloud Chatter Feed Comment
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Condition is

    Retain the webhook condition

    Attachment Group Id

    is not empty

  • Field Mapping
    Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.

    Field

    Value

    Title

    Attachment Object 1

    Path On Client

    Attachment Object 1

    Version Data

    Attachment Object 1

    Comment Body

    Remedy user, Author, added a work note, CommentText

    Parent Type

    Case

    Parent

    associatedGUID

    Related Record

    Attachment Object 1


Sync Service Cloud Attachments flow
  • Trigger
    The out-of-the-box trigger checks for attachments whose file names are prefixed with the string, Remedy. If required, you can update the trigger to change the string that BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker will check for in the attached file name.
  • Field Mapping
    Retain the values that are available out-of-the-box.


Multi-Cloud Worklog to Service Cloud Chatter Feed Item
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Condition is

    ${webhookContext.466000228} ="Service Cloud" AND ${webhookContext.304412011} = "comment#vendor"

    Include All Fields is

    true

    Attachment Group Id is not empty

    NA

  • Field Mapping
    • Flow Target 1 (Service Cloud - To create a new content version)
      The following mappings are provided out-of-the-box:

      Field

      Value

      Parent Type Note: The value of this field is set to Case.

      NA

      Parent

      associatedGUID

      Body

      CommentText


Multi-Cloud Worklog with attachment to Service Cloud Chatter Feed Item
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Condition is

    ${webhookContext.466000228} ="Service Cloud" AND ${webhookContext.304412011} = "comment#vendor"

    Include All Fields is

    true

    Attachment Group Id is not empty

    NA

  • Field Mapping
    • Flow Target 1 (Service Cloud - To create a new content version)
      The following mappings are provided out-of-the-box:

      Field

      Value

      Title

      Attachment Object 1

      Path on Client

      Attachment Object 1

      Version Data

      Attachment Object 1

    • Flow Target 2 (Service Cloud - To create a new feed item)
      The following mappings are provided out-of-the-box:

      Field

      Value

      Parent Type
      Note: The value of this field is set to Case.

      NA

      Parent

      associatedGUID

      Body

      CommentText

      Related Record

      Attachment Object 1


Sync Service Cloud Chatter Feed Item
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Body not starts with

    ITSM User

    Parent Type equals

    Case

    Is New is true

    NA

    Feed Item Type is one of

    Text Post Content Post

  • Field Mapping
    • Flow Target 1 (BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker)
      The following mappings are provided out-of-the-box:

      Field

      Value

      text

      Body

      post_type Note: The value of this field is set to comment#remedy.

      NA

      vendorTicketId

      Parent

      commentId

      Feed Item ID

      Author

      Created By

      Attachment Object 1

      • name
      • contents
      • Path On Client
      • Version Data


Sync Incident flow
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Broker Vendor Name

    is not empty

  • Field Mapping
    The following field mappings are provided out-of-the-box.

    Field

    Value

    incidentNumber

    Incident Number

    Summary

    Summary

    Description

    Notes

    Status

    Status

    Priority

    Priority

    Urgency

    Urgency

    Impact

    Impact


Send Error Notification flow
  • Trigger

    Field

    Value

    Flow Target

    Multi-Cloud

  • Field Mapping

    Field

    Value

    To

    Enter the email account that will receive the error notification.

    Subject

    Flow Title

    From
    Note:
    The value of this field is set to Integration Service.

    NA

    Note

    You can change the following out-of-the-box field mappings:

    • Subject
    • From

    However, BMC recommends that you retain the existing mappings.

List of connector targets for integration with Service Cloud

When a ticket is brokered from Service Cloud to ITSM, the ticket data first comes in BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management before being sent to ITSM. To send the data from BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to ITSM, you must configure the MCSM ITSM connector target and set it in the Connector Process ITSM. Similarly, when a ticket is brokered from ITSM to Service Cloud, the ticket data first comes in BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management before being sent to Service Cloud. To send the data from BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to Service Cloud, you must configure the MCSM Service Cloud connector target and set it in the Connector Process Service Cloud.


MCSM ITSM connector target

For the MCSM ITSM connector target, define the connection configuration and profile required by the connector process.


MCSM Service Cloud connector target

For the Connector Targets, define the connection configuration and profile required by the connector process in BMC Helix Platform.

 

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