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Procedures change from GoldMine to CRM Online

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So I need some direction.  One popular thing for use to do in our organization right now with Goldmine is as follows:

Sales person is on a call.  The call will result in a sample being shipped to us for a demo or an order.  In an effort to make sure everyone who needs to know gets notified that something is coming up the sales person would create a next action task and add everyone who needs to know to the task.  GoldMine then creates a task for each person listed.  They then complete the task and now they know.  

Admitedly this caused the task lists to be extremely bloaded with duplicate information.  Considering I am more than open for change.  What would be a procedure in CRM Online that will make sure (for example: The CEO, designer, production manager, and other sales staff) all know that something is going to happen or that a call and conversation have taken place.

While this example is more of an FYI to everyone.  There is another scenario where I might want to create a task for the shop supervisor to send something overnight for a customer.  I also want the production manager, sales person, and the officer person doing billing to know that will happen so that we make sure it gets done and the office is not supprised by a very large shipping number coming back in with the order after it is shipped.

Thank you for your help.

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    You can either create an email notification by including all recipients in the single email. This way you are just creating a single object instead of many. The other option is to use Activity Feeds in CRM. Below are some links on Activity Feeds which might give you additional insight on Activity Feeds.

    m.youtube.com/watch

    www.powerobjects.com/.../following-records-in-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2013

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh547394.aspx

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    ok so I am a sales person who is talking to a potential client.  They are going to send me a sample of the item they want me to produce.  

    Currently:

    we complete a phone call activity and mark at the bottom that we want to create a new "task".  Within that task I assign it to the main person and add multiple people to it as well so they see it.  Then I select to alarm it and bang, once saved, it pops up on everyone's desktop.

    Dynamics CRM:

    I am going to have to complete the phone call activity and then create an email to send out to everyone I want notified about what is going on.  Is that correct?

    I can't see how activity feeds will help unless there is some way that the salesman can cause others to follow what is going on with a contact or a specific activity.  Right?

    So, if that is the case then my question is:

    Can I, somehow, complete the phone call activity and it will create an email with all the notes that are in the phone call activity and allow me to finish editing it so that I can add the recipients?  This process would have to be on-demand due to the fact that this doesn't always happen.

    Can I, somehow, run an on-demand process that adds followers to a specific activity?  I assume they have to choose to follow, I can't choose for them.

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