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# Affinity For Salesforce Leveraging Your Connections And Relationship Strengths

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With Affinity's relationship intelligence, you and your team can leverage the shared **Connections** you have with contacts and accounts in your Salesforce instance, as well as the **Relationship Strengths** of these connections to quickly find out who to best ask for a warm introduction.

**Note**: If you're setting up Affinity for Salesforce for the very first time, it may take up to 24 hours for your connections to appear.

## Overview

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1. What are Relationship Strengths?
2. Types of Connections in Affinity
3. Viewing Connections on a contact's or account's profile page
4. Can you export Connections and Relationship Strengths?

### What are Relationship Strengths?

A relationship strength is a numerical score given to your connections that ranges from 10 (weak) - 100 (strong). Relationship strengths are calculated based on the recency and frequency of interactions between two individuals. The scores are also ranked by different colored bars.

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1. Green bars represent strong connections
2. Orange bars represent average connections
3. Gray bars represent weak connections

### Types of Connections in Affinity

1. **Contacts You Know** - These are the contacts you have directly communicated with.
2. **Contacts Your Teammates Know** - These are the contacts that your teammates have directly communicated with.
3. **Contacts Added Manually** - These are the contacts that have been manually associated with a given account, and only appear on account profiles.
4. **Inferred Connections** - These are the contacts that you/your team can potentially get introduced to based on previous shared work experience.
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**Note**: Inferred Connections will only appear for accounts, **not** for contacts or opportunities.

### Viewing Connections on a contact's or account's profile page

1. Click the **Connections** tab to see your/your team members' connections with that contact/account.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/lgYDtx_FgwCFHQTT/images/integrations-salesforce/affinity-for-salesforce-leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/3.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=lgYDtx_FgwCFHQTT&q=85&s=f091550729bf99d4805992c26525fe7b" width="1226" height="626" data-path="images/integrations-salesforce/affinity-for-salesforce-leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/3.jpg" />

2. Depending on whether such information is available, you can click on the **Email** icon to copy their email address and/or click on the **LinkedIn** icon to quickly access their LinkedIn profile page for further research before reaching out.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/lgYDtx_FgwCFHQTT/images/integrations-salesforce/affinity-for-salesforce-leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/4.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=lgYDtx_FgwCFHQTT&q=85&s=60c59ec12ffc31f82a3c0159dabbc3d4" width="314" height="118" data-path="images/integrations-salesforce/affinity-for-salesforce-leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/4.jpg" />

### Can you export Connections and Relationship Strengths?

* Connections and Relationship Strengths can be exported directly from your Salesforce instance via the **Affinity Connections** object.