About this app

The Field Service mobile app by Salesforce is a brand new way to bring the full power of Field Service management to your mobile workforce. Improve first visit resolution by arming employees with this best-in-class mobile solution. Built to be offline first, Field Service presents information in a clean and easy-to-use user interface and arms your workforce with the latest information with in-app notifications.

Backed by the Salesforce1 platform, this application lets you customize and extend the app to empower your mobile employees with whatever they need to easily resolve issues in the field.

Note: This application requires your Salesforce org to have Field Service. Individual users must be provisioned with Field Service Technician licenses to use this application. Please contact your Salesforce Account Executive for more information on purchasing Field Service and user licenses.

Features:
- Easy-to-use thanks to an optimized, clear, and beautiful user interface to view service appointments, work orders, inventory, service history and other important information from anywhere.
- Mapping, navigation, and geolocation capabilities let you know where you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re headed next.
- Offline-first design with intelligent data priming and offline actions to let you finish work regardless of network connectivity.
- Collaborate in real-time with dispatchers, agents, managers, and other technicians or mobile employees using messages and photos through Chatter.
- Access relevant Knowledge Articles to help you finish tricky tasks.
- Stay informed with the most up-to-date information with automatic push notifications to relevant users.
- Easily obtain proof of service using your touch screen to capture customer signatures.
- Quickly generate and send Service Reports to your customers after completing jobs.
- Seamlessly manage your Van Stock inventory or record product transactions using a Price Book.
- Plan ahead by viewing the parts required to complete a job, and easily record the products consumed after completing a job.
- Extend and customize this application using configurable layouts to reorganize information, and list views to control user schedules. Custom tailored quick actions, Salesforce Flows, and deep-links to other apps allow users to tackle any case.
- Declare your time off by recording it in the application under Resource Absences
- Control which fields mobile workers see when they view resource absences in the Field Service profile tab.
- Intuitively visualize the different steps required to finish complex jobs with work order line items
- Quickly get up to speed by viewing asset service history information

New features

Meet Salesforce Field Service 248

* Keep working with Automatic Offline Mode in areas of sporadic or no network connectivity.
* Choose to update work steps manually or automatically.
* Minor fixes and improvements.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to change the Z-order of tasks.