Hands on 5 - sending an e-mail to the opportunity owner

Process Builder also allows you to send e-mails to users, for example, sending out an e-mail alert to the account owner as soon as an opportunity is successfully closed. 

Let's look at a business scenario. Helina Jolly is working as a system administrator at Universal Containers. She has created a process (Post Opportunity Information to Chatter Group) to post Opportunity details to a Chatter group if the amount is greater than $1,000,000. She receives another requirement to send an e-mail to the Opportunity's Account owner after 5 days of its creation.

Follow these instructions to achieve this using Process Builder:

  1. Process Builder doesn't allow you to create a new e-mail alert, but ...

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