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How to add additional information to the closed opportunity form

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Hello community, 

I want to be able to collect additional information for when an opportunity is closed; however, the close opportunity form is locked and uneditable.  I'm wondering what the best way to do this would be and how.  My thought is:

1)  Trigger a dialog to appear when the closed opportunity form is loaded (or saved?)

2) The dialog would ask/allow for the user to select one or more of a multiple list of reasons for the opportunity closed.

3) The information would somehow be attached to the closed opportunity record.  Would this require creating a custom entity that has opportunity as a parent and forcing the dialog record to that entity?

As always, your help is appreciated.

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    jlattimer Profile Picture
    24,564 on at

    You are on the right track with the dialog. It might end up being more user friendly if you added a custom ribbon button to launch the dialog to close the opportunity (and hide the existing buttons).Instead of creating a custom entity to hold the dialog data - one option might be to add it directly to the opportunity (might get messy if you allow re-opening opportunities). Otherwise a custom entity related to opportunity would work just fine.  

  • mfrankel Profile Picture
    730 on at

    Thank you for the answer Jason.  I'm very new with CRM 2011.  Can you provide a little more detail on the suggested process - Create new button, remove current button, attach dialog data to opportunity. Thank you.

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    jlattimer Profile Picture
    24,564 on at

    Check out this tool for working with the ribbon - Ribbon Workbench the site has videos and tutorials.

    These other links might help:

    Welcome to the World of Dialogs - Part 1

    How to start a Dialog from Application Ribbon (CRM 2011)

  • mfrankel Profile Picture
    730 on at

    Thank you Jason.  As always, you are quite knowledgeable, courteous, and helpful.

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    ScottDurow Profile Picture
    23 on at

    Hi,

    In addition to Jason's link to the Ribbon Workbench (thanks Jason), here is the tutorial for creating a dialog short cut button - ribbonworkbench.uservoice.com/.../140652-create-a-dialog-short-cut-ribbon-button

    Cheers,

    Scott

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