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  • 1 About This Guide
    • Audience and Scope
    • Related Guides
  • 2 Get Started
    • Overview of the Sales Application
    • Overview of Work Areas
    • About Recent Items
    • Mark Favorite Records
    • View and Act On Notifications
    • Get Help in the Application
    • Find Guides, Readiness Material, and Other Resources
    • Why can't I see all the items in my browser window?
    • Why does the Date field display a different value than my preferred date?
  • 3 Sales Resources, Roles, and Organizations
    • Overview of Managing Resources
    • How do I enable desktop pages for Resource Directory?
    • How do I make an employee a sales resource?
    • Examples of Updating Resource Skills and Qualifications
    • Resource Roles
      • About Resource Role Assignment
      • Define Resource Roles
      • About Provisioning Roles
      • About Resource Members and Dates
      • Overview of Resource Roles, Job Roles, and Abstract Roles
    • Resource Organizations
      • Overview of Resource Organizations and Organization Usages
      • How Resource Roles and Resource Organizations Work Together
      • About Primary Resource Organization by Usage
      • Overview of Organization Memberships and Role Assignments
      • Understanding Associations Between Resource Organizations and BUs
      • Example of Adding or Removing an Organization From an Organization Hierarchy
      • Example of Creating an Organization with Sales Usage
      • Assign a Resource to an Organization
    • View Resource Information
    • Designate Proxies
    • Work as a Proxy
  • 4 Workspace and Work Areas Search
    • Get Started with Search in Workspace and Work Areas
    • Improve Sales Productivity with Workspace
    • Search and Filter
      • Search for the Information You Need
      • Refine Search Results Using Filter Values
      • Find an Item in the List of Search Results
      • View Search Results Grouped By Fields
      • Filter Records by Date and Time in Workspace and Work Areas Powered by Adaptive Search
      • Use Dynamic Dates in Workspace Date Filters
    • Saved Searches
      • Saved Searches
      • Save Your Search to Create a New Saved Search
      • Create Saved Searches in Workspace
      • Maintain Your Personal List of Saved Searches
      • How to Display the Most Relevant Records for My Mobile App
      • Display a List of Your Most Recent and Frequently-Accessed Items
    • Use Workspace and Work Areas Search
      • Change Columns Displayed in Search Results
      • Find the Most Recent Items You Worked On
      • Update Multiple Records at the Same Time
      • Take Actions on Search Results
      • How do I use dynamic and nested dynamic tabs?
    • FAQs for Workspace and Work Areas Search
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Workspace and Work Area Search
      • Can I navigate to work areas powered by Adaptive Search from my Sales springboard?
      • Why can't I find the information I just entered in Workspace and Work Area search?
      • Why can't I see the tabs from the Manage Saved Searches UI?
      • Why does the Default Saved Search field display with either no name or with a Select drop-down list?
      • What can I do if I get too many results when searching for an account by name?
      • What happens when I search for Activities owned by my subordinates?
      • Can I search for Territories by Dimension in Workspace?
      • How can I differentiate between Quote ID fields when I filter for Opportunity search?
      • How can I search for appointments that don't have a corresponding call report?
      • How are recurring appointments managed in Workspace?
      • How can I act on multiple records at the same time?
      • How can I mark favorite records in Workspace?
      • How can I perform record-level navigation from Workspace?
      • Can I use Workspace to manage accounts and contacts without additional setup?
      • Can I merge similar account or contact records in Workspace ?
      • Can I perform partial term matching when searching for my records?
      • Can I add a signed-in user as a search filter for resource-based fields?
      • Can I search dynamic choice list (DCL) values based on the Resource object?
      • What name is displayed for a custom object with DCL fields in Workspace?
  • 5 Global Search and Legacy Work Area Search
    • Two More Ways to Search Your Sales Application
    • Use Global Search for Keyword Searches Across Sales Objects
    • Search Within Work Areas for Fastest Results
    • How can I add more fields to my search?
    • Personal Lists
      • Create Your Personal List in a Work Area
      • Delete or Hide a Personal List
      • How can I create saved searches with just one custom field?
  • 6 Infolets
    • Quick Way to Get Key Sales Information and Take Action
    • Personalize Your Key Infolets
    • What happens if I delete an actionable infolet?
  • 7 Sales Insights
    • About Sales Insights
    • View Account Engagement Level From Sales Insights
    • Optimize Lead Nurturing Through Sales Insights
    • Optimize Opportunity Nurturing Through Sales Insights
    • Validate Contacts for Leads and Opportunities through Sales Insights
    • Optimize Deal Execution and Lead Nurturing through Sales Insights
  • 8 Accounts, Contacts, and Households
    • Overview of Accounts, Contacts, and Households
    • Account Team Member Access Levels
  • 9 Activities and Calendars
    • Overview of Activities and Calendars
    • Get Started with Activities
    • Manage Your Calendars
    • Make Your Calendar Appointments Visible to Others
    • Update Details in External Appointments
    • Create Follow-up Activities for External Appointments
    • Create Tasks from a Task Template
    • Track Updates with Call Reports
    • Select Addresses for Activity Accounts and Contacts
    • Use Activity Subtype
    • Apply Mass Update to Activities
    • Activity Search and Lists
      • Overview of Creating Lists
      • Use the Show Filter in Activities
      • Create Your Own Activity Lists
    • Activity Notifications
      • Overview of Activity Notifications
      • Use Notifications to Drill Down to Records
    • Activities and Assets
      • Overview of Integrating Assets with Activities
      • Add Assets to Activities
      • Overview of Asset Calendars
      • Create an Asset Calendar View
    • Activities and Interactions
      • What activities can I do from the Interactions History subtab?
      • Log Interactions You Had with Customers
      • Log Email Conversations Manually
    • FAQs for Activities and Calendars
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Activities and Calendars
      • What activities does selecting My Open Activities display?
      • What activity records do the different record sets permit you to search?
      • How can I search all activity records?
      • How does the Show filter refine my activity list?
      • How can I view activities that are set as private?
      • How can I track customer-facing activities?
      • How can I view my appointment in a different time zone?
      • Can my administrator view and edit my appointments?
      • What's the difference between a task, a call report, and an appointment?
  • 10 Business Plans
    • Overview of Business Plans
    • Create Business Plans
    • Add Business Plan Objectives
    • Use the Business Plans Summary Tab
    • Business Plan Team Members
      • Collaborate on Business Plans Using Microsoft Teams
      • Re-create a Team for a Business Plan Team in Microsoft Teams
  • 11 Assets
    • Overview of Sales Assets
    • What assets records can I search using saved searches?
    • How can I view assets?
    • How can I create assets?
    • How can I edit assets?
    • How can I delete assets?
    • Apply Mass Update to Assets
    • Export Assets
  • 12 Marketing Content
    • Overview of Campaign Management and Reporting
    • About Campaign Management Reports
    • Add Leads and Contacts to Marketing Campaigns
    • Associate Campaigns with Leads and Opportunities
    • FAQs for Marketing Content
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Marketing Content and Campaigns
      • How can I view the amount of responses for a campaign?
      • How many campaign members are associated with a campaign?
      • How can I ensure Opportunity amounts get displayed in Marketing Campaigns?
      • What happens to existing campaigns if I update the campaign template?
      • What's the difference between a predefined list and a subscription list?
  • 13 Leads
    • Overview of Lead Management
    • Lead Processing
      • Overview of Lead Processing
      • Overview of Import Process
      • How do I import sales lead data?
      • How do I import sales lead contact data?
      • Import Your Sales Lead Product Data
      • How do I import sales lead resource data?
    • Lead Follow Up
      • How Lead Components Work Together
      • Differences Between Response, Lead, and Opportunity
      • Lead Actions
      • Lead Statuses
      • Lead Conversion
      • Redirect to Opportunity After Lead Conversion
      • Verify Email Addresses and Phone Numbers for Leads
      • Apply Mass Update of Fields to Leads
      • How Users Gain Access to Leads
      • Lead Ownership and Sales Team Resources
      • Examples of Sales Lead Team
    • Qualification
      • Lead Qualification
      • Perform a Lead Qualification
      • Overview of Lead Qualification Templates
      • Perform Multiple Lead Qualifications Using the Same Template
      • Examples of Lead Qualification
    • Lead Artificial Intelligent (AI) Score
      • About Artificial Intelligent (AI) Lead Score
      • What happens when the AI lead score changes ?
    • Use Slack for Leads
      • View Your Leads in Slack
    • FAQs for Leads
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Leads
      • How can I quickly enter and search address details for leads?
      • What leads are displayed when I select My Open Leads?
      • Who can view the record sets for leads for saved searches?
      • Why do I see two Primary Product options for Advanced Search on Leads?
      • How can I create a lead with new contact and new account for a sales prospect?
      • What happens when I enter a last name with two parts?
      • Why was a customer reference displayed for my lead?
      • Can I create more than one opportunity from a single lead?
      • Can I capture competitor details for my leads?
      • How can I check for duplicate leads?
      • Why did the deal size change?
      • Can I perform a mass update for leads of different business units?
      • Why can't I see the lead source channel from the lead details page?
      • Where can I find the primary phone number for my lead contact?
      • Why aren't the modified details of my contact reflected in my lead contact details?
      • Why did I receive an error when I convert a lead that has more than 255 characters in a custom Description field?
      • What happens if I manually change a lead rank that was automatically assigned?
      • How can I select and add products or product groups to my lead?
      • What happens if I convert a lead to an opportunity?
      • What happens when I convert a lead to an opportunity using a smart action?
      • How can I copy notes, attachments, and activities during Lead to Opportunity conversion?
      • Why can't I see converted leads in my list of opportunities?
      • How can I fix an invalid relationship error when converting leads?
      • What's the difference between lead qualification and lead assessment?
      • What are assessment templates?
      • Why does the sales channel default to Partner when I open a lead?
  • 14 Responses
    • Overview of Response Management
    • Differences Between Response, Lead, and Opportunity
    • What's the difference between a response and an interaction?
    • What happens when I convert a response to a lead?
  • 15 Opportunities
    • Overview of Opportunities
    • How to Apply Mass Update to Opportunities
    • FAQs for Opportunities
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Opportunities
      • What opportunities are displayed for My Open Opportunities and Open opportunities where I am on the team?
      • What do the opportunity saved searches mean?
      • Can I sort opportunity searches by the last update date?
      • Can I create opportunity lists from territory membership record sets?
      • What information is required to create an opportunity?
      • What happens if I change win probability?
      • Can I select more than one account address when creating an opportunity?
      • Which fields or data are initially set on an opportunity?
      • What's a billing account on an opportunity?
      • How do I delete an opportunity?
      • How can I copy an opportunity?
      • What is copied when I copy an opportunity?
      • Can I move Opportunities to different Business Units?
      • Why did some fields change when I changed the sales stage?
      • What happens to the conversion rate when an open or closed opportunity is changed?
      • How is the expected close date of an opportunity initially set?
      • What happens to forecasted revenue when an opportunity is changed?
      • How To View Renewal Opportunities
    • Use Slack for Opportunities
      • View Your Opportunities in Slack
      • Create a Task for Your Opportunity from Slack
      • Log a Call for Your Opportunity from Slack
      • Schedule a Meeting for Your Opportunity from Slack
    • Recommended Actions
      • Overview of Recommended Actions for Opportunities
      • Recommended Actions for Opportunities
      • What's the difference between win probability and predicted win probability?
      • What's the difference between Recommended Actions, Action Items, and Recommended Documents?
    • Opportunity Team Members
      • Add Team Members to an Opportunity
      • How can I collaborate on Opportunities using Microsoft Teams?
      • What happens to the Microsoft team I created, when an opportunity closes?
      • Re-create a Team for an Opportunity Team in Microsoft Teams
    • Sales Coach
      • Overview of Sales Coach
    • Opportunity Access
      • How Sales Users Gain Access to Sales Information
      • Why can't I edit some fields for an opportunity?
      • Why can't I see the Partners tab and Primary Partner field when I edit an opportunity?
    • Sales Competitors
      • Overview of Sales Competitors
      • View Competitor Information Outside Opportunities
      • Associate Competitors with Opportunities
    • FAQs for Sales Competitors
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Sales Competitors
      • How can I see the opportunities that I lost to a competitor?
      • How can I see the win/loss distribution on competitors?
      • How can I see win/loss trends against selected competitors?
      • How can I get more information about a competitor?
      • What's SWOT?
    • FAQs for Opportunity Assignment
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Opportunity Assignment
      • How are territories assigned to opportunities?
      • How do I assign team members automatically to an opportunity?
      • Why can't I assign an opportunity?
      • What's lock assignment?
      • What's deal protection?
    • Opportunity Closure
      • Considerations for Closing an Opportunity
      • Close an Opportunity Using the Edit Opportunity UI
      • Close Multiple Opportunities
      • Examples of Using Opportunity Search Close Period and Close Date Range Fields
    • Opportunity Assessments
      • Perform an Opportunity Assessment
      • Perform Multiple Opportunity Assessments Using the Same Template
  • 16 Opportunity Products and Revenue
    • Overview of Opportunity Products and Revenue
    • Opportunity Products and Revenue Management
      • Manage Opportunity Products and Revenue
      • Can I update products on multiple opportunity lines at the same time?
    • Recurring Opportunity Products
      • Overview of Recurring Opportunity Products
      • Create and Maintain Recurring Opportunity Products
    • Sales Credits
      • Best Practices for Sales Credits
      • Allocate Sales Credits
      • How can I lock in a sales credit recipient?
    • Product Attribute Synchronization
      • Example of Product Line Synchronization with Win Probability
      • Opportunity and Product Line Attributes Synchronization
  • 17 Territories
    • Overview of Territories
    • Modify Your Territories
    • Work with Active Territories in Workspace
    • Create a Territory Proposal
    • Add Child Territories to Your Territory Hierarchy
    • How can I move a territory in the hierarchy?
    • Change Territory Coverage in a Proposal
    • Activate a Territory Proposal
    • How Dimensions Define Territories
  • 18 Analytics
    • Overview of Sales Analytics Pages
    • Sales Analytics Interfaces
  • 19 Microsoft 365
    • Overview of Microsoft 365 for Sales
    • Sign In to Outlook for the First Time
    • Main Add-In Components
      • Home Page
      • Lists of Sales Records
      • Share Email and Meetings
      • View Sales Record Details
      • Create New Sales Records
    • Bi-Directional Sync for Appointments
      • Overview of Bidirectional Sync
      • Appointments That Aren’t Synced in Bi-Directional Sync
      • FAQs for Bi-Directional Sync
        • Do the appointments shared with the sales application show the account they're related to?
        • Can I manually share a past appointment from Outlook in bidirectional sync?
        • What happens if I manually remove the Shared with Oracle category for a past appointment in Outlook?
    • Adaptive Search for the Add-in
      • How does Adaptive Search work in the Microsoft 365 add-in?
      • What are dynamic choice lists?
      • What's a smart list?
      • How Dynamic Choice Lists Show Options
    • Add Objectives to Your Appointment, Call Report, or Tasks
    • Sync Records Between the Sales Application and Microsoft 365 Outlook
    • Auto-Sync of Appointments
    • Update Details in External Appointments
    • FAQs for Microsoft 365
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Microsoft 365
      • Why am I frequently prompted to sign in the add-in?
      • How do I troubleshoot the error, "There is an issue in communicating with Microsoft Services"?
      • Why did my Outlook contact fail to sync with the sales application?
      • Can I open sales records in the web application from the Microsoft 365 add-in?
      • What happens when I share an email with my sales application?
      • How can I share an email with my sales application?
      • How can I send a call report as an email?
      • Can I share my Microsoft 365 email attachments with my sales application?
      • What's the allowed attachment file type and size for sharing emails?
      • Why doesn't the category of my email show the sales application after I share it?
      • Can I share a meeting that is still in the compose mode in Desktop Outlook?
      • What happens if I create or update records in the side panel?
      • Why can't I open the sales application records from the Microsoft 365 side panel?
      • Why aren't my sales application user preferences visible in the Microsoft 365 side panel?
      • Why are the saved searches for the appointments read-only?
      • Why didn't the invitees within my organization get notification when I updated a meeting I created?
      • Will my internal and external invitees be notified when I update a meeting shared with my sales application?
      • Can I share a meeting I received from an external contact with the sales application?
      • Why can't I find the option I am looking for, even though I am using Adaptive Search?
      • In the search results page, I can't see the attributes that were there earlier. What should I do to see them again?
      • Why do some records in the smart list not seem to match my search criteria?
      • Why isn't an account created when I create a contact?
    • Microsoft Teams
      • Microsoft Teams
  • 20 CX Sales Mobile
    • Overview of CX Sales Mobile
    • Get Started with CX Sales Mobile
    • Personalize the Home and Reports Pages for End Users
    • Offline Usage
      • Can I use CX Sales Mobile when I am not connected to Wi-Fi and I haven't got a cell phone signal?
      • What data can I see in the offline mode?
      • How can I synchronize my offline data?
      • What happens if there's an issue when your offline updates synchronize with the CX Sales web app?
    • FAQs for CX Sales Mobile
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for CX Sales Mobile
      • Which mobile devices are supported?
      • What's the default language for CX Sales Mobile?
      • What note apps can I use with CX Sales Mobile?
      • Can I scan a business card to create a contact or lead?
      • Can I scan a barcode to view an asset or create an asset record?
      • How can I log a call report?
      • How can I view my call reports?
      • Why has the note I created become a PDF attachment?
      • What type of files can I attach to a record?
      • How can I use Sales Assistant to help me with my sales-related activities?
      • When does a message appear to confirm that you've created a record?
  • 21 Sales Assistant
    • Overview of Sales Assistant
    • Features of Sales Assistant
    • Microsoft Teams Specific Features
    • CX Sales Mobile Specific Features
  • 22 LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    • Overview of LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    • Use the LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    • Associate LinkedIn Records with Accounts, Contacts and Leads
  • 23 Service Requests
    • Overview of Service Request Management
    • Overview of Service Request User Tasks
  • 24 Sales Lightbox
    • Overview of Sales Lightbox
    • Available Actions for Different Content Types
    • Create Content
      • Overview of Creating Content
      • Use Microsites in the Lightbox Content Library
      • Create and Upload a Microsite .Zip File
    • Upload Content
      • Use the Cart
      • About Uploading Content
      • Upload Content
    • Update Content
      • About Updating Content
      • Update Content
    • Search for Content
      • Overview of Searching for Content
      • Search for Content
    • Download and Open Content
      • Download Content
      • Open Content
      • Overview of Managing Your Cart
    • Share Content
      • Overview of Sharing Content
      • Share Content with an Opportunity
      • Share Content with a User
      • Share Content as Joint Owner
      • Share Content with an Account
    • Content with Thumbnail Images
      • About Setting a Slide as a Cover Thumbnail
      • Set a Slide as a Cover Thumbnail
    • Delete Content
      • Overview of Deleting Content
      • Delete Content
  • 25 In-Context Audit
    • Overview of In-Context Audit
    • Use the Change History Subtab