Archived ideas

As a business user, I would like the ability to specify a fixed data element within a chart already containing the same data element.  Examples include: * A specific date in a year that is important to the company (eg renewal date, project completion) * A calculated field to compare the industry average of metrics vs the displayed metric(s). If this is an additional date field, I would expect to see a highlighted period of time If this is an additional metric, I would expect to see an additional dotted line to distinguish its special characteristics. Complexity could be limited by only offering this functionality for specific kinds of visualizations, such as line graphs (or graphs with dates, as per the date example).

Euromonitor has requested the ability to round to the nearest dollar on charts when the data points are displayed. Below is a screenshot of how it is now. When they look at the data on such a large scale the pennies are meaningless to them.

In the Config options for the Cockpit list view; Status isn’t available to add as a column. Our CSD's have a fairly long list of CTAs (lots of accounts); which they prefer to group by Due Date; so the CTAs due in the near term are at the top. The problem is that they're not able to see the Status in the Due Date view which makes it more difficult to do their planning.

Currently if I run a rule I get an email confirming that it was run successfully. However, if I run a rule and include historical periods, I don't receive an email, so I have to keep checking the Rules Manager logs.

As a user, I would like to provide certain non-charted table elements that I don't require being considered for the visualization. For instance, I am trying to graph: ID of Tasks by Date, Assigned Name  With the above, I'll get some nice options for output.  However, the drill down table is not very helpful - I would like to add the Task Subject field. Unfortunately, when I do so, I lose all of my options and am stuck with a table.  Ideally, a drop down State toggle that will appear for the element (eg in the Gear icon). This State will allow me to "Graph - on/off". If off, then do not consider it when dynamically displaying options.

I can't see or figure out the full field names in the Summary layout editor. A number of field names are too long to show but there is not a way to actually see the field names - we need a hover over so that the admin can see the full name within the setup.

Right now, in Admin > Cockpit Configuration, the user has to click the disk icon to save changes for each item in that section. (See Call to action priority section as example.) It would be useful to have a general Save button at the bottom of each section, so that if a user makes multiple in-line changes, they can save all the changes at once.

 Goal: Provide insight into the frequency of activity and interaction with Contacts at an account and internal team members.  Create a preconfigured rule to perform the following calculations to compose a prebuilt "Interaction" Score for each Account.  * Examine the Activities object. Count the number of Activities for each week and create a relative score for the Account.  * Offer an option to push the count of Activities into the Usage object * While not all companies will be logging their emails into SFDC, I'm sure quite a few are.  * This could be extended to Tasks - many teams do use SFDC tasks, and though there could be some false positives due to mixing in the Sales persona, it is still a nice indicator for "Touch" at an account. * The only feasible option today is to create a calculated field to come up with a monthly calculation, but obviously you won't have trend.

I have a rule that creates a CTA whenever we have a new customer with an opt-out clause in their contract. I'd like to be able to set the CTA due date to equal the Opt-Out-Deadline Date. Currently my only option is Rule Date + __ Days. 

We've been holding on updating the managed 'Lifecycle in Weeks' formula field on our Customer Info object until we have a validated formula - we've got a few customers waiting for this field to function as originally intended:  provide a week number, 1-52, based on the anniversary of the Original Contract Date. I've provided a formula below. I've also set this formula field up in a demo org and tested it - I can pass along the credentials if you want to look. Basically, the formula works as follows: 1. builds a date in the current year that is the same month and day as the Orig. Contract Date  2. Subtracts this date from today's date. 3. If the result is positive, then it divides the different by 7 and rounds to get a week number. 4. If negative (meaning that the Orig Date day and month is later in the year than today), it creates a new date for LAST year with the same day and month as the Orig. Contract Date, THEN subtracts a

For users with the Gainsight Admin permission set, having the ability on the Gainsight Home dashboards to click on the title of a report (or an additional link in the Settings icon of that report) and have it take you directly to that report in Reports 2.0 would make editing dashboards much quicker. Same for being able to have a quick link to the layout - maybe a link at the top next to the dropdown list. 

When there are multiple reports added to a custom 360 section, the order of those reports in the dropdown seem random (possibly in the order they are created). It would be great if we had control over the order of these, or at least what the default view should be. Same for the Customers tab. I am able to set the default but it would be great to have control over how the different views are ordered in the dropdown list.

Many of our CSD's are requesting the ability to enter the health score values directly, rather than using the slider. Just double-click, type in the score, and save.

In rules engine, if a field has been removed from Show that is being used on the action then it will throw an error which is expected. However, the error lists the field's string id rather than the MDA field name. Can we get that updated to display the actual MDA field name instead? It will make troubleshooting much quicker.

I'm aware of two requests to customize what's available on the Service Cloud Console Gainsight widget so I wanted to post here.  Thanks. (1) SmartFocus is moving their Code Red CTA process in to Gainsight...they would like CTAs w/comments available in the Service Cloud widget so that Support knows if they are talking to a Code Red customer.  (Support doesn't use Chatter so having comments posted there does not work for them. And they don't want to use a field on the C360 summary to indicate because having an indicator without the comments is not enough). (2) I recently turned over Booker to Carissa & I believe they are trying to roll out their first email campaign using GS & want the Support team to be able to see if the customer they are talking to has received or opened the latest email that was sent via Gainsight. 

I'd like to see the instances that could have triggered a rule for a specific Account. For example, we have a rule that checks poor page load across all instances but we run an account level CTA to keep from overwhelming the team. To help with triage we added a reports 2.0 widget to display this data. While this is valuable, if we can get more of the detail surfaced to the team in the actual CTA it would be valuable/make it more clear on what action the team is to take.

We have a small time saver which would be nice. Can we have the milestone checkbox in the Usage summary default to be checked? There are small defaults here and there that it'd be nice to update for time saving purposes.

I would like to add token values to the CTA name, similar to how we can with the comments. This could allow for more specificity in the CTA, for example: [x] P1 Cases filed [y] % change in Spend this week. For instance level CTAs it could be valuable to highlight the instance that triggered the rule

Provide confidential, on-demand Gainsight usage data & health score for customers via the community.  Several customers have asked for both.  Thanks

Angie's List's Account Managers would like a way to show the number of Open vs Total Tasks on a CTA (for example 7/10). That way they'd have a quick visual of how many Tasks had been completed on a CTA.

First, it would be great if the features object was "report enabled" by default. Second, it would be very helpful to quickly analyze what features (updated in C360) customers are using by segments, industry, healthscore and other customer attributes stored in GS. Ideally, these reports would be built in dashboards in Gainsight (much like the Cockpit leaderboard). However, it would be great if we could answer these business questions by quickly building graphs using Report 2.0.

Our CSMs currently use several predefined types of interactions to track activity with customers outside of Gainsight. As we move into Gainsight/CTAs to track all activities, it is important for us to have something like a drop down option when manually creating CTAs to allow folks to choose from a predefined list (so, rather than entering a "Subject I picture the drop down option appearing) and not enter free form text for the CTA Subject . This will enable us to maintain standards for reporting and tracking of our various types of interactions. Examples of the types of Activities we're currently tracking from a predefined set of options are: Account Update: this is more of a catch-all to track interaction with a customer that you want to make note of but is not necessarily tied to a scheduled meeting/milestone. Training Strategy Meeting: A scheduled meeting but not one we can automate through a call to Action Customer Steering Committee Meeting etc (the

Our CSM team frequently asks to be able to group the CTAs by reason or priority. Currently the first is impossible and the latter is only available as a "sort" option. Moreover, they would like to see trends of CTAs opened by reason over time for all customers or by customer attributes (or per a particular customer). This will help them identify whether a specific customer has similar issues repeatedly, or whether this is a cross-organizational issue and a process needs to be fixed. Therefore, built in operational dashboards that show CTA trends would be great.

I've trained a few of the CSM members and collected their feedback regarding the cockpit area here. My hope is that you could leverage this feedback to continue to perfect this functionality, which overall adds a lot of value to the team: 1) Terminology - Many of the terms cross correlate to existing terms used in SFDC (Tasks, Opportunity, etc). For example: one of the CSMs has asked me whether a CTA of an opportunity type will now replace the use of opportunities in SFDC. 2) Filter buttons - the pre-filter buttons in the header are hard to understand and/or are not comprehensive enough. For example: it's unclear what happens when you click "show closed CTAs" - would it only show closed CTAs or whether we will see all CTAs including the closed ones. 3) Dialog Box - it's not easy to find the orange arrow that helps expand or collapse the CTAs. 4) Snooze - It's not clear whether adding a reason for the snooz

Having the CTA name derived from the rule name is a bit of an issue for a number of reasons: 1) Sometimes we have multiple CTAs created off of the same rule (it's more efficient). For example, I would ideally like to create one business rule pulling all the NPS scores, but then create one CTA named "Detractor score was received" and another for "Promoter score was received". Instead, I need to create two separate rules to have this quickly make sense to the CSM team. 2) The rule name should easily tell me what it's about, and that doesn't always match what I'd like to CTA name to be. I would love to be able to create a rule and call it "solution review reminder for growth accounts", so I could easily understand what it's about. In this case, I'd like the CTA name to be "Schedule a solution review".