Appointment Assistance Real Time Location Url Generation

Appointment assistance enhances customer satisfaction with self-service solutions. It allows customers to easily schedule appointments, receive real-time updates, and stay informed about onsite visits, resulting in a more convenient and efficient experience. Customers can track technicians with the help of Appointment assistance. This post will explain how customers can track technicians with the help of real-time location.

Real-time location is generated and shared with the customer when the technician begins his/her scheduled appointment. Let us see what setting is required for real-time location URL generation.

Field Service Mobile Settings
Experience Cloud Site
Field Service Settings
Create Field Service Mobile Flow
Test Page

1. Field Service Mobile Settings

Agent’s location is handled using his/her geolocation and is tracked using the Field Service Mobile app. We need to set up a geolocation setting in Field Service Mobile Settings. Set below properties in Field Service Mobile Settings. These settings will be used to notify customers.

Geolocation Update Frequency in Minutes	10 Mins
Geolocation Accuracy	Medium
Collect service resource geolocation history	Checked
Metadata Cache Time in Days	7
Picklist Time Interval in Minutes	15
Enable Limited Tracking	Checked
Send appointment notifications on assignment	Checked
Send appointment notifications on dispatch	Checked
Status Change Mode	Automated
Radius (in meters, 100-5000)	150

Appointment Assistance - Geolocation Setting - SalesforceCodex — Geolocation Setting

The settings below will help in changing the status automatically. Set up all required information based on your requirements.

Appointment Assistance - Status Change - SalesforceCodex — Service Appointment Status Change

2. Experience Cloud Site

Create an experience cloud site for appointment assistance. This site will show real-time locations to customers. So we can mark the created site as a public site.

We need to add a component Real-Time Location on the home page or any page like agent location. Setup below properties for the Real-time Location component.

Show time estimate	Checked
Show map	Checked
Show team member’s exact location	Checked
Show team member’s info	Checked
Show team member’s image	Checked
Let customers reschedule appointments	Uncheck. Check if you want to give the option to reschedule the appointment.
Let customers cancel appointments	Uncheck. Check if you want to give the option to cancel the appointment.

Once properties are set, Publish the experience cloud site. As mentioned, You can enable public access to this page so that customers can easily track agents. This page will be used in the Field Service Setting page for generating real-time location.

Appointment Assistance - Experience Cloud Site — Experience Cloud Page – Real-Time Location

3. Field Service Settings

Set below Field Service Settings for sending agent’s real-time locations to customer. We can set the status En Route for sending notifications to the customer.

Enable Notifications for users	Checked
Status ( Appointment Assistant Status Update- This status is the first event for Appointment Assistant)	En Route
Appointment Assistant ETA URL ( add above-created experience cloud site page URL)	Community Url Page
Appointment Assistant Radius (The radius of the service appointment that sent the second event for Appointment Assistant.)	3 Mile
Appointment Assistant Expiration (Time after Stops the customer from seeing the mobile worker’s location.)	12 Hrs

Appointment Assistance - Appointment Assitance Notification Setting — Appointment Assitance Notification Setting

4. Field Service Mobile Flow

Create a field service mobile flow for changing the status of the service appointments. We need to update the below objects in this flow

Assigned Resource
Service Appointment

1. Assigned Resource

Update LocationStatus of assigned agent to EnRoute. This will notify the customer that the agent has started for his/her appointment.

Appointment Assistance - Assigned Resource - SalesforceCodex

2. Service Appointment

Update the status of the Service Appointment to En Route. It will show the service appointment is in progress.

Appointment Assistance - Service Appointment - SalesforceCodex

Once the flow is created, activate it. Create an action button to call this flow and add this button to the Field Service Page Layout (Service Appointment). Refer to this help document to add a button to the FSL Mobile application.