Our customers LIVE in Outlook, like it or not. SendSLX and Record To History have become a competitive challenge.
We need "Outlook2CRM - like" integration (inclusive) which allows consultants (or even customers) to build work "processes" that spawn AFTER basic validation checks occur.....like is the Contact in the database, No?, then help me add the contact and then continue with the process I started. Doing everything from one button (which it doesn't do) is not the answer.
Having to purchase a 3rd party add-on (as awesome as it is) is a show stopper in many deals. The other show stopper is the fact that we are being driven to the web, yet no new Outlook Integration was introduced to this new and advanced environment.
The amount of time that someone who lives in Outlook has to spend dealing with these delinquencies is sginificant. 3rd Party or Interna. We need comprehensive Outlook integration. See Infusionsoft
It would be great to avoid phone calls from users, to log off all users from slx with a short message.
I do not know if this is possible in web but it would be great to let the users know that you are doing something in the system which requires them to log off.
Or post some global message which can be seen by all users.
Something like this!!
With the release of Windows2008 R2 and the big push for 64 bit desktops/laptops it's time we have an option in the install that would give us 64 bit versions of all the SalesLogix applications.
This does not have to be a "mixed" (32/64 bit) on a given system but should allow us to install either the 64 bit or the 32 bit on a given platform. What would be really nice is that it does an auto-discovery (this should be very easy) if the platform is 32 or 64 bit and "default" to the correct one.
Give each exe a different looking icon. When they are all pinned to the taskbar having them all the same makes it harder to selection the one you want. Guessing Vs. hoping the mouse hover enlightens you.
I would like to see Inactive Contacts appear greyed out in the Account View Contact Tab.
In SalesLogix 8.0, Sage changed the layout of the main detail screens. Previously, where you were given a single page with a scroll bar, now you're given a static "detail" view at the top of the screen while your tabs reside underneath.
Although this may be seen by some as a favourable change, we're finding that this decission is proving unpopular with customers because of the way the tabs are now "squashed" at the bottom of the screen. Previously, they enjoyed the ability to view a single page of (for instance) contact information and to scroll up and down at their leisure depending on the data they needed to see.
Although they can use the "minimise" button at the top of the screen, the ability to do this is unpopular because it adds an extra click and hides off additional info that previously, they only had to scroll to the top to view.
Adding an option to allow users to choose between which view they'd like to use would be ideal.
(To clarify, by split view I mean the split between main information at the top and tab information at the bottom. I'm not referring to the LAN client split view where you can view details and group info on the same screen.)
Scenario: Customers in Europe want to use one browser to do the following:
if you moved the SLX language to user profile setting (that either be set by Admin or via User preferences panel), then the above scenario would be possible.
When a customer has a concurrent licence there is no way of knowing if a single user is signed in more than once.
We would like to see in administrator the count reflecting not only amount of users (concurrent) signed in but a way of seeing if a user is logged in multiple times thus using more than one licence.
We have a customer who has this exact problem and if they do get close to using all of their concurrent licence the user count can show incorrectly.
Thank you
Paul Barnes
QGate Software Technical Support
This idea would work great with Brain's Tool for managing groups or at least add a "last access date".
One of the most powerful aspects of SalesLogix as a CRM is the ability to create your own groups and filter data. A customer suggested to me recently that it would be nice to set the colour of those group tabs that run along the top. Users can then effectively "group" their groups and assign a colour to their grouped groups.
E.g
Opportunity Entity
Closed Won Opportunity Group
Closed-Won Opps This Month
Closed-Won Opps Last Month
Closed Won Opps This Year
My Closed Won Opps
Add On Closed Won Opps
Closed Lost Opportunity Group
Closed-Lost Opps This Month
Closed-Lost Opps Last Month
Closed Lost Opps This Year
My Closed Lost Opps
Add On Closed Lost Opps
Ongoing Opportunities
My Open Opportunities
Opportunities Not Contacted in 28 Days
You get the idea. Being able to group the groups and assign colours would really build on SalesLogix's already fantastic group functionality and will help those users that have their groups set up like the attached below.
Adding this functionality for both the web and LAN would be fantastic as we have a few big SalesLogix clients that use their groups religiously. This will make the system considerably more attractive for future upgrades to them and will make life easier for those that utilise SalesLogix's group functionality properly.
We need to have Windows authentication for XBar, if as we do you have customers who ONLY use Windows Authentictaion then this is a problem, Windows authentication is nowadays either on or off, therefore without Windows Authentication support for Xbar, it will require additional portals setting up for SLX authentication.
Can you please make XBar compatible with Windows Authentication.
Regards
Craig
The replace data maintenance function was very useful in the LAN client for modifying a lot of data at once based on groups. The function is missing in the WEB client.
Thank you.
Regards,
Marco
This idea comes from Brian Jonas' post in another forum:
Group Last Accessed Date
Many customers have upwards of 5,00 to 10,000 account/contact/opportunity groups. I just did a count and found that we (The Seattle Times Co) have 2,200 groups, with 1,470 of them being account groups. Group creation gets out of control due to users creating lists but seldom taking the time to delete old groups. The administrators can purge some lists but for most groups we don’t know what can be safely deleted other than unshared lists created by retired users, and the ones the Administrators created.
In our implementation (v7.0.1), one serious impact of having so many groups is demonstrated whenever I log into the client as the Administrator. Since that login sees all the groups, it can take up to 5 minutes to open up to the list view. I can’t imagine how long it takes other customers their groups!
In the CAB meeting I suggested that a field be added to the Architect that is a time stamp of the last date the group was accessed. That would really help us purge out the dead groups! There was a lot of vocal support to that suggestion – I hope it is possible for Sage to create.
Great idea Brian!
Not sure how possible or likely this is, however here goes.
With the advent of the job server and having just been through a load balanced install utilising an app server for shared components, It would be really great to have a configurator within AA, within this configurator you would state where the SLXServer is located, where the job server is located, where the cache server is located, where the messaging server is located in addition whether you want to use windows authentication or slx authentication.
Plumb in all this information and all the relevant *.config files are deployed with the correct settings for the relevant servers and authentication methods.
Hacking around in config files with limited or no documentation for specific scenarios in this day and age is archaic.
Please provide us with some sort of mechanism to set up the configurations which are deployed to the relevant servers instead of having to mess around in config files.
Regards
Craig
Hi,
Our customers would like to display more than 4 calendars. Like it was possible in LAN.
Right now you get:
"Sorry, you cannot view more than 4 calendars (including your own) at one time.
Clear one of the currently-selected calendars and try again."
Of course at some point you can't display the appointment details anymore.
But just a line of color is enough to see if the user has an appointment or not.
You could always hover over or open it to see the details.
Thank you.
Regards,
Marco
If you search for something in slx and only get one result back, it would be nice to automatically open that record.
This would save the user a click.
And if you make this realy great, you put in an option for this, so each user can enable or disable this feature.
With the growth of Google Apps it would be very beneficial to have email and calendar integration with Gmail and Google Calendar. Google is making a big push into the business world. Many companies are adopting Gmail and ditching older industry standards for online alternatives.
Having some basic applications that allow SLX to integrate "Send SLX", "Record to History", and "Calendar Integration" would make a world of difference and not limit SLX to one primary email platform.
Is there progress in this area? Do any third parties offer a currently available solution?
I don't care at all for the existing customer portal implementation. It never seems to be what my customers want. Instead of it being this separate application, they want it to be more "embeddable" into other existing customer websites they already have.
Having clear defined integration points for the customer portal and embeddable parts that could be used in other websites could make the customer portal far more attractive to support organizations. At minimum, having the base customer portal use themes or skins that could easily change it's look & feel would make it easier to at least look like the existing customer websites even if they are two separate websites. It would really be cool to even have the screens that make up the customer portal be reusable UserControls (or simple pages that one could load into frames).
Having the customer portal look like "SalesLogix" just isn't something that most companies want.
It'd be nice if the default message when you navigate away from a record in SalesLogix Web gave you the ability to save the record ie if the message said "There are unsaved changes on this page, press yes to save the changes and continue, or no to return to the {account/contact/opportunity} without saving changes"
Due to multiple imports and the nature of our business, we have many, many duplicate contacts in our database. Unfortunately, many have been entered with generic names - General Manger, etc. rather than given names. It is a real pain to have to create a contact group for each account then merge through list view. No, Parabus does not work for us in this area either.
What we would love is to be able to click on the Contact tabs while in the account screen, highlight two (or more) duplicates, and merge them right there.
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