Customize timeline fields Sally can access
CS Timeline
I would really love the ability to customize what fields are available when logging a timeline activity through Sally. Our CSM's have quite a few activities to log by the end of the day, and they would love to do it all through Sally instead of clicking into each C360 page. However, we need them to log data in a custom field on the activity. Will it ever be possible to customize what fields a CSM can fill out through Sally instead of just the subject, date, time, note, and duration?
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Sally is constrained by the limitations of Slack's dialog forms. The Slack dialog forms support only up to 5 fields and the only data types supported are text, text area, and menu/picklist. As you know, Timeline currently requires 4 fields (Subject, Date, Time, Notes) as mandatory fields hence these fields have to be present in the form leaving room for only one more field. By default, the 5th field included in the form is 'duration'.
If you define a custom field as mandatory (possible now!) in Timeline then it will replace the field 'duration' in the form. This only works if the custom field is of the type text or menu/picklist. The catch is to define only 1 custom field as mandatory. If you define more than 1 field as mandatory then the activity type wouldn't even show up in Slack.
Please try this and let me know if this solves your need.
Thanks,
Do you know if Slack will increase the limitations of their dialog forms? If they do would Gainsight be likely to increase Sally's capabilities? I know if this does happen, it'll be a very long term update with two companies needing to make product enhancements, but I'm a bit of a dreamer sometimes.
We are keeping a close watch on the enhancements made by Slack in different areas such as dialog forms. We will update the features accordingly.
There could be ways such as chained forms (open another form with more input fields on submission of 1st form) to work around the Slack dialog form limitation. Depending on the complexity and level of interest from customers. We will explore this option as well.
Thanks,