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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 : Creating Follow-Up Activities

6/18/2011 11:28:36 AM
In addition to creating activities from the ribbon, you can create them from customer or other records in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Because activities are critical to developing a complete view of each customer’s interactions with your company, you’ll find several locations from which you can quickly create new activities—you can even schedule follow-up activities from an existing activity! For instance, you can enter notes from a phone call with a client contact, and then schedule a follow-up appointment activity based on a time and date discussed with the customer during your call. By doing so, you can save the phone call activity as completed while also ensuring that the dialogue with your customer continues by scheduling the future appointment.

In all record types for which you can create activities, Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides the following ways to create a new activity:

  • You can click one of the activity buttons that appear on the Add tab of the ribbon.

  • You can use the Activities option that appears in the entity navigation pane of the form. From this view, you can click the Add New Activity button on the ribbon to create an activity.

Any time an activity is created from a specific record, that record is automatically populated in the new activity’s Regarding field. When you create a new activity from an existing lead, account, or contact, Microsoft Dynamics CRM can also pre-populate other activity fields for a record, such as the phone number for a phone call or the To: recipient for an email message.

In this exercise, you will create a phone call activity from a contact record. When you create a phone call record by using this technique, Microsoft Dynamics CRM automatically populates the mapped fields, such as the call recipient, the phone number, and the phone call’s Regarding value.


Note:

SET UP Use the Internet Explorer web browser to navigate to your Microsoft Dynamics CRM website before beginning this exercise.


  1. Navigate to the Contacts view and open any contact record in your system. Ensure that the contact record includes a phone number in the Business Phone field.

  2. On the ribbon, click the Add tab, and then click the Phone Call button. A phone call record opens and is populated with data from the contact record.



  3. Select Incoming near the top of the form.

    Microsoft Dynamics CRM automatically switches the values in the Sender and Recipient fields. This direction field indicates whether you placed the call or the contact called you.

  4. In the Subject field, type Spoke with customer.

  5. On the ribbon, click Save.

  6. On the ribbon, click the Close Phone Call button. A new dialog box appears.



  7. In this dialog box, you can select a value to record how you closed out the phone call. Select Made, and then click OK.

    Microsoft Dynamics CRM closes the phone call as a completed activity.


Tip:
Certain activity types can be converted to opportunities and cases. You can convert phone calls, tasks, faxes, email messages, appointments, and letters to sales opportunities or service requests by clicking the Convert Activity button on the ribbon.
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