Winter 18′ Release: Setting Task Reminders in Lightning

If you were used to Task Reminders in good old Classic, you probably found that there was no reminder field to set a reminder in Lightning. 

Good news, starting Spring 18′ it’s no longer the case.

USE CASE

Make sure your Reps never forget to follow-up with Task Reminders. As a sales rep, you need to manage many clients at once and to keep track of all the to-dos, manage a variety of actions that each have a specific milestones = statuses. When you put a task on your to-do list you need to be sure you’ll get reminded at the right time. Here is where Task reminders come in handy.

SETUP – CLASSIC

There is nothing to set up in Classic, Task reminders are there by default.

SETUP – LIGHTNING

• Edit a page layout
• Customize Application

PAGE LAYOUT

The necessary field is not on the Tasks Layout by default. Thus, you need to add it:

1. Go to Setup – Object Manager – Tasks – Page Layout
2. Click on the Task layout
3. Click on Fields – Search for Reminder Set
4. Drag theReminder Set field  to the layout
5. Click Save

SETUP – MOBILE

Once you’ve done with the Lightning Setup, it’s a good idea to make sure that those also work with Mobile. There are a couple extra thing things to be checked to allow creation and edit of task reminders in Salesforce for Android, Salesforce for iOS, and Salesforce mobile web.

CONFIGURATION

First, configure the Salesforce side, make sure the Show simpler New Task form setting is unchecked