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Difficulty: MediumProducts, Price Books, and Opportunity Line Items

A Salesforce Administrator at NovaScale Cloud Infrastructure creates a new product record for a cloud storage solution and marks the record as Active. The administrator needs to make this product available to sales representatives using a custom price book titled 'Federal Public Sector'. However, the administrator is unable to select or add the product to the custom price book. Which action must the administrator take first to resolve this issue?

  1. Create an active list price entry for the product in the Standard Price Book.Answer
  2. B
    Activate the custom price book and assign record access through sharing rules.
  3. C
    Map custom product fields to the Opportunity Line Item object in Lead Conversion Settings.
  4. D
    Associate the product with an active Sales Process linked to the opportunity record type.

Answer

Create an active list price entry for the product in the Standard Price Book.
In Salesforce, the Standard Price Book acts as the base pricing reference. A product cannot be added to any custom price book until an active price entry exists for that product in the Standard Price Book.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the prerequisite for adding products to custom price books in Salesforce.
Salesforce architecture requires every product to have an active price in the Standard Price Book before entry into any custom price book.
The Standard Price Book serves as the master catalog and baseline price reference for all products.
2
Create a Standard Price Book entry for the new product record.
The product now possesses an active standard price.
Once the standard price is established and active, Salesforce unlocks the ability to add the product to custom price books.
3
Add the product to the 'Federal Public Sector' custom price book with a custom list price.
Sales representatives can now select the product on opportunities associated with the custom price book.
The system validation rule requiring a standard price entry is satisfied.

Key Concept

Standard Price Book Entry Prerequisite
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Products, Price Books, and Opportunity Line Items

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