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I have a custom object called employees. It stores employee details including their email ids. I have a process builder set up which sends email alert to this email ids when ever a record is created or edited. I would like to have a record what email is sent out an when in Activity history of the custom object Employee.

I explored a link - https://medium.com/@brilligence/salesforce-recording-activity-history-on-workflow-email-alerts-8ae227fa8cee#.wqr7rgth5 which talks about a solution, but seems like it is possible with Leads or contacts only and not with custom objects. Is that true? If so , is there any other way to store the activity of email alert in history?

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    All the docs state Accounts, contacts, opportunities. You could always try it with a custom object. It uses the ID after all. Otherwise you could create an apex email service and process the emails yourself
    – Eric
    Sep 12, 2016 at 4:59
  • I tried the approach mentioned in the link but I could not see any emails getting created in activity history. I created a template with ref to the id of the record. Not sure what I did wrong.
    – SfdcBat
    Sep 12, 2016 at 5:29
  • @Eric I have a process builder on this custom object - Employee which sends time based email alerts in 2,4,6,8 weeks. I wish to records whenever the email is sent out in activity history. I tried the approach given in the link but does'nt seem to work. Do you think if the solution in the link should have worked? Thanks
    – SfdcBat
    Sep 12, 2016 at 6:06
  • I got it right! I had to add the from address to "My Acceptable Email Addresses" in my setting -> my email to Salesforce option. It worked and I was able to create the email in activity history.
    – SfdcBat
    Sep 12, 2016 at 6:37
  • @Eric do you want to add the answer on it?
    – Dave Humm
    Sep 12, 2016 at 8:13

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All the docs state Accounts, contacts, opportunities. You could always try it with a custom object. It uses the ID after all. Otherwise you could create an apex email service and process the emails yourself

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