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Default contact type = person, when creating a new customer

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BC defult: 

After creating a new customer, BC will automatically create a new contact, type = company. There you can edit the profile questionaire. 

My Customer's workflow:

My client is active in the B2C sector. All of his end-customers are persons and not companies. His time during a phone call is quite limited, so he wants to do as few clicks as possible.

And here comes the problem - limited time: It has to be possible to both...

- create new sales orders, track open orders, track the payments and statistics (Customer card)

- use the profile questionaire (Contact card)

... fast (on one page).

BC workflow: Way to time-consuming

Page Customer Card (21, Card) --> Function "Navigate / Customer / Contact" --> Page Contact List (5052, List) --> Function Select the line of the contact type person by clicking on the flow field --> Page Contact Card (5050, ListPlus) --> Function use the profile questionaire (--> Optional: Go back, in case the end customer on the telephone has some questions regarding his statistics)

My Idea to shorten the workflow: Put the profile questionnaire at the customer page

Customize the page customer card so that the profile questionnaire is editable from there. 

But this would require to automatically create a contact, type = person. Is there a default setting for this? Otherwise, this'd be the next customization

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  • JAngle Profile Picture
    159 on at

    Default setting you could review here is shown in the below documentation links (plus the general guidelines with contacts)

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/dynamics-nav-app/marketing-contacts

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/dynamics-nav-app/marketing-setup-contacts

    I understand what you are looking to achieve. Might be that having a single page with related contact detail is worth exploring instead of shifting questionnaire detail to customers. Purely on the basis that the other marketing tools available use the contact so you might solve one problem and then cause a few others. MS have recently made is possible for more page combinations, so multi sub forms for example.

    Be nice to see the final result for other forum readers.

  • Mathias Fuersich Profile Picture
    5 on at

    Thanks for your advice! You're probably right with your concern regarding shifting the questionnaire to the customer page. I'll discuss your suggestion regarding the single page with my colleagues from development.

    Well - and regarding the links. unfortunately, I couldn't find a field that defines a default customer to contact type conversion. I just had a look at the marketing setup. But there's also no such field.

    I'll keep you informed :)

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