Writing to Multi-select Picklist in Rules Engine (Tag field and others)
Thanks for binging this up, we are working on supporting the Multi-select picklists. Expect this enhancement to be in January release.
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Most ETL connectors allow String type fields to be written to a Picklist field in SFDC. We do not currently support this. We only allow writing a picklist directly to a picklist.
Use cases would include having MDA data in a string field that we can then push to a Picklist in a SFDC/Gainsight object. Current workaround requires one action per picklist value, which is doable but time consuming and often resulting in duplicate work.
Thoughts?
Tags are becoming more and more valuable to us as a mechanism to group clients. Having rules-engine access to them will significantly amplify their value!
Since Tags work as a multi select picklist, we can't remove tags with rules so I thought we would be able to add a role to a Contact. However, when I run my rule it removes all of the Contacts other roles and writes it as Technical.
Is it possible to add a new role in a multi select picklist?
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Curious to understand your use case for custom C360 views based on multi select picklist? Can you elaborate regarding how you plan to use that for. Based on your comment , my understanding is -
If you are selling Product A, Product B and Product C. A customer can buy one or more of the products.
Do you plan to create multi C360 views based on various combinations of A,B and C? Theoretically,You would have to create 7 layouts (Customers who have purchased only A, only B, only C, Both A and B,Both A and C,Both B and C and All of A,B and C) each as a layout for your accounts.
Is my understanding right?
Thanks
Abhishek S
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But yes, we plan to use the product to set the C360 in the next release.
Hi Team,
Facing an issue while working with a customer on Multi-pick list field where the Source field is string and the Target field is Multi-pick list. Usually the code was made in a way to load a value to picklist field if source is String. As we get multiple records for an account the data is getting updated instead of appending.
Is there any way to work around.
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Hi.
Recently I got the same scenario where I have to load data to a Multipick list field and I did this using rules. And worked as expected.
You can refer to this link.
Hope this will solve your issue too.
Thanks.
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Hi All,
The below-mentioned steps help us to load Data to Multipick List Field.
Recently when I am working with a customer I had this scenario and implemented this via Rules.
Example of your Input Data.
The target object has a Multi Picklist Data Type field whose values are like below.
Rules
Reports
JO
We need to load and map the data to the respective values in the target field where ever the Account responded as “Yes” to the Question.
We could simply achieve this via rules.
Step 1: Fetch the Input data
Step 2: Choose Transform Task and Create a Case Expression like below.
Provide all the values which are mentioned in the above pic.
The trick we need to apply in the “Then” Section was to append the semicolon to the value. i.e. like ‘Rules;’ (without Single Quotes)
In a similar way create two more case expressions for the fields “Using Reports Module” and “Using JO Module” in the same way.
Step 3: In the next transformation, Concat the fields created in step2 to load the target field.
Finally, create the Action and select the object and map the Concated field with MultiPicklist filed.
Thanks!!!
Hi Team,
Can we please confirm if this is in roadmap and share an ETA? This seems to be big ask from multiple customers.
Best,
Hardik
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+1, we recently came across this issue. We were able to hack a solution together using a mix of case expressions and concats but this isn’t ideal or very scalable.
+1, I just added two multiselect fields to our company object for capturing product subscription categories and subcategories. One field has 7 options, the other has 23. I have a rule that merges data from 3 SFDC objects and 1 MDA object to populate those multiselect fields and would love a relatively simple solve to push it over the finish line.
Before discovering that only the last value updated would be reflected on the multiselect I wondered how we would go about deselecting values. Perhaps sending a null or a “deselect all” in a separate action just before the field updating action I think would work for my case and I look forward to an even better solution I didn’t think of :)
The end goal for me is to create reporting that correlates rNPS scores and feedback comment themes with product categories.
Be well friends
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This still is an issue. I have a rule where we are trying to have parity between SFDC and MDA contact/person information. One action is designed to load an updated multi-select “role” field to the MDA’s person object if the contact record was most recently modified in the MDA. If it was most recently modified in SFDC, then we want to load that “role” value to SFDC’s contact record instead.
Loading to MDA works just fine because SFDC’s multiselect picklist is stored as a “multipicklist” field, as one would expect. And when you map to the MDA’s multiselect, that field as available to map to. See below.
However, when I try to do the opposite - load from MDA to SFDC, I run into the issue of the MDA picklists being stored as GSIDs and therefore am not allowed to map it to SFDC’s multi-select picklist. Can we please fix this issue somehow?
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+1 this is an issue we have recently faced as well. We wanted to use this in Journey Orchestrator to set a conditional wait based on a multi-select picklist of Contact Role but we can’t do that since it is multi-select. Please implement a fix so this can be usable!
+1. It’s a must for us to have. Can we have an update on where it sits on the roadmap please?
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