Using Cases to Track Interactions

Created by Sam Herrmann, Modified on Fri, Nov 22 at 12:55 PM by Sam Herrmann

CWS operation teams have found that cases are valuable to manage daily tasks, document, issues, organize communications, and collaborate with your organization. Find a full video tutorial on cases here (video - 30 mins)


  • How does it work? Cases are created:
    • A partner emails your CWS support email (optional - see notes at the end of article)
    • A supervisor requests a follow up on a time card
    • From student timecards and student support plans
    • Manually by anyone with a WSF account
  • On a case you’re able to:
    • Track follow up dates, share updates, and add next steps
    • Track the case progress
    • Send emails and log calls or meetings
    • Document incidents
    • Escalate the case to get help from a CWS Director, Sales, or other WSF user in your organization
  • Cases are queued and assigned the following ways:
    • Assignment to you if you are the contact owner of the incoming case
    • Emails that are sent to your support email and go to the queue (see last bullet)
    • Accepting cases in the queue or in the unassigned case will assign the case to you 
  • Managing your case
  • Case Sections
    • Under 'Case details', you have the options to adjust origin and type based on partner vs student vs other issues
    • For 'Follow Up & Next Steps' choose the date you will address this case and the latest update to manage a flow of information to the case's feed
    • Use the feed to add comments, attachments, and other info
    • Email through the case to record threads of messages to the case. If you have Einstein Inbox, additional emails will be recorded here.
    • Contact roles allow you to add "key players" on the case and identify individuals of importance
    • Change Owner allows you to reassign cases as necessary (transfers, PTO, etc.)
  • Views
    • Follow ups! If you are a leader you will have your team’s cases listed here and can track responsiveness and effective management.
    • Utilize list view to pencil in notes and updates status quickly on all cases.
    • Users will only be able to close a case in the case.
  • Different places to find cases
    • Contact, Accounts, Employments, and Work Study Attendance
    • Cases can also be generated in all these places too (low timecard rating as an example)
  • Set up a CWS support email!
    • Create an email for your program (e.g. cwspsupport@schoolname.com)
    • Schedule 15 minutes to configure your settings with salesforcehelp@cristoreynetwork.com 
    • Upon activation, your partners will be able to email their cases in directly

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