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Split Accounts across 3 'Entity' Buttons

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Hi,

I am trying to work out how I would go about this as I cant see a simple solution and wanted to check that I am not missing anything.

We want to use the Account entity for the whole sales process, so that it includes Leads and Customers. The reason for this is to make it easier to transfer notes and other data across when a record moves between any of the 3 stages... and also a record could move backwards and forwards between the stages at anytime.

So all we want to do is have a flag against the account which is just a drop down list which then identifies what it actually is (Lead, Account, Customer).

What I want to do so that this is easier for the users to manage is have 3 buttons within the Sales area, Leads, Accounts and Customers. These buttons then open up a set a views to the accounts data, filtered depending on the stage of the record.

So the question... Can I these buttons to the menu?

If NOT then I will create my own entities for each of the stages, the only thing which is stopping me from doing this at the moment is the amount of work to create all the fields/forms/relationships and most importantly I don't know how to move NOTES or Activities between entities... can these be moved as part of a workflow/sql script?

Apologies for the long question and thanks for taking the time to read it :)

Cheers

Euge

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  • Aileen Gusni Profile Picture
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    Hi Euge

    You can create 3 sitemap sub area for same entity with 3 diff titles: Lead. Account and customers

    However you cannot limit the view. It will still appear in the view selector.

    There is a plugin to limit the view selector but you cant limit this based on the selected menu from the sitemap.

    You can also hardcode the view url from the menu once click but ince again it will only show as default view fron the menu but the user can still change the view selector.

    Is that you ok? First of all is about that.

    Other thing I recommend you to instrad of creating flag from the sitemap you create a flag as a field then if show hide section or tab is troublesome for you then better you have multiple form.

    Then you can create new ribbon that will open the form accordingly based on the selected ribbon.

    Hope this helps. Thanks

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    Thanks for the help, I will give it a go on my test environment and see how I get on.

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    I have edited the SiteMap, everything works from that perspective but not being able to change the views that are available to the users is bit of a blocker.

    The alternative solution is that I create 2 more entities with the same data as "Account" so that I can control the views etc. this will mean lots more time in terms of setting up but will give the users what they want...

    the only challenge I have is that I cant copy Notes/Activities from one entity to another... Is there a way that as part of my workflow to transfer all of the data to another entity that I can also transfer/copy the notes?

    Cheers

    Euge

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