Working with geocodes location in salesforce
Are your sales and marketing teams facing problems in locating the address of your customers? If your answer is yes then you are in the right place. Are your sales and marketing tasks distribution optimized based on geolocation? If your answer is no then you are in the right place. Let's get started with the geolocation concept in salesforce. As default salesforce is providing geolocation field to below objects(This will be released in summer 16 release): Billing Address on accounts Shipping Address on accounts Mailing Address on contacts Address on leads Whenever a record is created in the above objects with some address these geolocation fields will auto-populate from data.com and the best part is, this does not require a data.com license. Each field above has three subfields(latitude, longitude, and accuracy) to store geolocation data. These fields are not present on page layout but you can dis...