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kristin_f3c469
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July 2, 2015

Contact on Task Not Synching

  • July 2, 2015
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When a Contact is added to a Gainsight task, and the task is synced with a Salesforce task, the Salesforce task in not updated to show the linked Contact. This is important so users viewing the tasks from Salesforce can see which Contact the interaction was with. 

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    kelsi
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    June 27, 2017
    Any updates on this issue being resolved?
    manu_mittal
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    June 28, 2017
    Thanks for posting, Kelsi!

    The original ask seems specific to customer interactions, which can now be captured using Timeline Activities (directly or from within a CTA). We are working on syncing "External Attendee" information to Salesforce as well -- should be available by August. The plan is to populate a field called "Name" that can house one Contact by default, and up to 50 if the setting shown below is turned on. This enables the same Salesforce Task to be associated with the Account as well as each of the synced Contacts. 

          



          



    Would this suffice, or would you also want all Gainsight Tasks to behave similarly, pulling Contact information from the CTA? 
    kelsi
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    June 28, 2017
    That's great news! Will there be a way to look at all previously created activities in timeline with external attendees and retroactively tag those to the contact? 

    Ideally, all GS tasks would behave similarly and pull the contact info from the CTA. Our team is specifically utilizing timeline because we needed a way to get the tasks to sync to the sfdc account record in a way that CTAs (without a task) cannot do. So if we had the ability to get those CTAs to sync to sfdc AND link to the contact, that would be our most ideal situation. 
    manmeet_dosanjh
    Helper ⭐️
    September 8, 2017
    Does this mean that when we attach a Contact to the CTA in Gainsight will that contact now sync to the Task that logs in SFDC and populate the "Name" field? Or would it be to the "Assigned To" field? 
    manu_mittal
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    September 8, 2017
    Hi Manmeet,

    This is about Timeline Activities syncing to Salesforce, not CTA Tasks. The two syncs are different, as we discussed on the other thread here. Our team is working on extending this feature to CTA Tasks as well.
    manmeet_dosanjh
    Helper ⭐️
    September 8, 2017
    Hi Manu,

    Ah.. I see thanks for the clarification! Any idea on when to expect this feature to be available for CTA Tasks?
    nitisha_rathi
    Expert ⭐️⭐️
    September 11, 2017
    Hi Manmeet,

    This feature will be available in CTA tasks in fall release.

    Thanks,
    Nitisha
    manmeet_dosanjh
    Helper ⭐️
    September 11, 2017
    Oh that's great news! Thanks for letting me know.