During the transition process to Lightning, one of the big user experience changes you may see is the difference in how the Convert button on a Lead works. The differences are completely beneficial to your users but may take some adjusting to the visual elements of it. Let's step through the Convert screen in Lightning: … Continue reading Converting Leads in Lightning
Understanding the Type field on Product Option
An important field on the Product Option record that you should always consider when creating Product Options is the Type field. This field controls the behavior of its relationship with its parent Product (Configured SKU). Below I will demonstrate how the different values of the Type field behave. Component: This sets the Product Option to … Continue reading Understanding the Type field on Product Option
How to Run a Report on Reports
Perhaps you are thinking about doing a Reports cleanup as part of your Lightning Transition. Salesforce has made it easy to report on Reports. Possible good use cases for using this Report type are: seeing how many reports you have in total, how many have been run recently, how many have NEVER been run (trust … Continue reading How to Run a Report on Reports
How to set up a Lookfield for the QLE
Recently I was asked about adding a Lookup field on a Quote Line to be filled in on the Quote Line Editor. As a result, I learned something new about the backend of CPQ. There is a special way to adjust what fields show up in the Lookup filter view and how to set it … Continue reading How to set up a Lookfield for the QLE
How to Add Campaign Members in Lightning
The user experience of many features in Lightning may differ in comparison to Classic. One such feature is adding Campaign Members to a Campaign. Related: Salesforce Lightning Reference Guide In Classic, the way you added Campaign Members was through the Manage Members button at the top of the Campaign screen. The button is a drop-down with … Continue reading How to Add Campaign Members in Lightning
How to add Product Image in Quote Line Editor
Recently, a customer wanted to display the images of the products they sell within CPQ to make it easier for their sales reps to identify the differences in the products. After much research and digging through the Salesforce documentation, I found it to be lacking in the context needed to do it in Lightning. Here … Continue reading How to add Product Image in Quote Line Editor
How to Set up Twin Fields in CPQ
You are probably wondering what is a Twin field and when do you use it. A Twin field is a CPQ feature that lets you create, for certain objects, two fields that are of the same name and type, and the data from one object is automatically populated onto the other object. Of course, there … Continue reading How to Set up Twin Fields in CPQ