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Emergency scheduling is the appropriate Field Service design. Emergency scheduling is designed to insert urgent work into an active day, identify an appropriate nearby technician, and dispatch the appointment even when normal schedules are already occupied.

Salesforce Field Service treats the Service Appointment as the primary unit of scheduling. Scheduling Policies combine Work Rules, which determine whether a resource or time slot is valid, with Service Objectives, which score valid alternatives against business priorities. The selected configuration therefore has to operate at the scheduling layer rather than merely changing descriptive fields on the parent Work Order.

The alternatives address different parts of the Field Service model. Get Candidates is a general candidate-evaluation action, Appointment Booking is aimed at finding bookable slots, and Fill-In Schedule uses gaps for nonurgent work rather than interrupting the plan for an emergency.

This approach keeps the implementation aligned with the standard Field Service data model and avoids unnecessary customization. Study Guide reference: Managing Scheduling and Optimization — Emergency scheduling; Dispatcher Console; urgent dispatch.