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3768712 - Account Email Address Auto-determined to Be Added as Email Recipient

Symptom

  • In SAP Service Cloud Version 2, users are unable to select a customer account email address as a recipient when creating an email from a case.
  • Only contacts, individual customers, employees, or other supported recipient types are available in the recipient selection.

Environment

  • SAP Service Cloud Version 2 1.0
  • SAP Sales Cloud Version 2 1.0

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Open a Case.
  2. Select Create Email.
  3. Open the recipient selection list.
  4. Observe that only:
    • Contacts related to the account (Related to Account)
    • Individual Customers
    • Contacts
    • Employees, are available for selection.
  5. The account's own email address is not available as a selectable recipient.

Cause

  • This behavior is standard system design.
  • For accounts of type Business Partner (Organization), the application is designed to determine recipients based on persons associated with the account, such as contacts maintained for that organization.
  • An Account represents an organization rather than an individual recipient. Therefore, the account email address itself is not automatically proposed in the recipient selection list when composing an email from a case.
  • For example, this differs from Individual Customers, which represent a person and can therefore be selected directly as recipients.

Resolution

  • The system is working as designed.
  • When creating an email from a case, the recipient determination supports:
    • Contacts related to the account (Related to Account)
    • Individual Customers
    • Contacts
    • Employees
  • The account email address itself is not automatically offered as a recipient.
  • The design intention for B2B scenarios is that communications are sent to a specific person/contact associated with an organization rather than to the organization record itself.
  • Workaround
    • Users can manually enter the account email address in the recipient field when composing the email.

Keywords

service cloud v2, email from case, recipient selection, account email, customer email, b2b, cannot add account recipient, only contacts available, email composer, case communication, recipient picker, send email from case , KBA , CEC-CRM-EML , Emails for SAP Sales/Service Cloud , Problem

Product

SAP Service Cloud Version 2 all versions