[Ask from Customer] To add Related Contacts in Timeline

Hi Hitesh,

Yes, this is on our roadmap. We will be giving a contact filter similar to filter available in cockpit associated objects. Would this solve the use-cases you have in mind?

Thanks,
Nitisha

Yes Nitisha.

Nitisha - we have chosen to disable Associate Contacts because it allows me the ability to search the entire contacts database - meaning, I cannot restrict it to *just* searching for contacts associated with the present account.  It's just too risky that someone could inadvertently associate a contact from the wrong customer and send the email.

Setting that aside for a moment - when I tested the Associated Contacts feature, I don't see all fields available to select as one of my filters.  We have a custom Contact Type field on the Contact object as well as on the Account Relationship Contact object (which provides the related contacts function) that would be crucial in ensuring we select the right "type" of contact.  The Contact Type field could be set to VALUE A on the direct Contact object, the Contact Type field could be set to VALUE B on the Associated Relationship Contact object - but both for the same person.

Without these capabilities, Email Assist (and I guess also External Attendees) is "broken" for us.  We really want to use Email Assist, but in its current state we cannot.

Hi Jeff,

Reg. custom fields not available in Associated Contacts filters - You should be able to add custom fields in both search and filters.

Please let us know if you are still facing this issue or raise a support ticket.

Thanks,
Nitisha

Nitisha, I believe the issue could be that it's a Multi-Picklist field.  I assume that's why I cannot leverage it here.

Nitisha do you have anything yet that is able to be demoed here? 

As I noted below, there needs to be some way to restrict the ability to associate contacts from other  accounts.  i.e. if there is a John Smith at Target and a John Smith at Walmart, I don't want the CSM to be able to inadvertently attach Target's John Smith to Walmart's account.  It's too risky.

Ideally this filter would allow you to pull from the Contact and/or Account Contact Relationship object only for the Account to which the Timeline is associated.

@nitisha_rathi any update here?