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The AutoQuote method generates a quote from an opportunity. The opportunity may contain one or more products. A quote item is generated for each product in the opportunity that has the AutoQuote field flag selected.

When the AutoQuote method is executed, the quote business component fields are populated with the values shown in Table 36.

Table 36. AutoQuote Method
Field
Value

Quote Number

This field is assigned a system-generated value

Revision

1

Name

Quote Number
(or user-provided name)

Opportunity

Opportunity from which AutoQuote was called

Account

Opportunity's account

Account Location

Opportunity's account location

Status

In Progress

Active

Flag is set to on

Currency

Opportunity's currency code

Price List

Opportunity's price list

Sales Rep

User's login

Start Date

Today's date

End Date

Today's date + 30 days
(30 days is determined by the QUOTE_EXPIRATION_PERIOD LOV)

The Quote Item business component fields are populated from the corresponding Opportunity Product's business component fields as shown in Table 37:

Table 37. Population of Fields in Quote Item View
Source Field
Destination Field
From Opportunity Product View
Quote Item View

Product

Product

Product Quantity

Extended Quantity Requested

Write-In Product (Not exposed)

Write-In Product (Not exposed)

Expected Delivery Date

Requested Delivery Date (Not exposed)

ID (Not exposed)

Opportunity Product ID (Not exposed)

Fields that are noted as "Not exposed" do not appear in the user interface.

In addition, the Quote Number field in the generated quote is copied back to the Opportunity Product view (Table 38).

Table 38. Population of Fields in Opportunity Product View
Source Field
Destination Field
From Quote View
To Opportunity Product View

Quote Number

Quote Number (Not exposed)

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