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rajyalakshmi_vele
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
January 28, 2020

Beta Testing Opportunity - Cockpit Calendar Integration

  • January 28, 2020
  • 39 replies
  • 1150 views

Hi Community! We have an exciting new feature that we are getting close to release and want to do some beta testing with some engaged end users. 

 

 Cockpit Calendar Integration  

 

What does the feature do: It allows CSM’s to add CTA’s to their calendar as events!! 

Why would they want that: CSM’s start and plan their day from the calendar. Having your important  CTA’s visible on your calendar will ensure that they don’t miss any critical due dates and better plan their day. 

How can I choose what CTA’s get added to my calendar: Users can set a filter criteria for CTA’s to be automatically added to their calendar (Eg: sync all my Risk CTA’s due next week) or manually add them from Cockpit.

What all can I do from the synced calendar event : User can navigate to the CTA in Gainsight directly from the calendar event. In addition to this, users can update CTA due date & CTA Name directly from the calendar. Also if CTA due-date’s are updated in Gainsight the calendar event in automatically updated

What if too many calendar events get created: When defining the filters user can preview how many CTA’s will get synced to their calendar to give them a sense of how many events will be added. Also at any point of time users can delete all the synced events and redefine the filters to start over again. 

Does this work for Google & Outlook Calendars: Yes 

 Is it available for both SFDC & NXT Editions: No, its available only in  Gainsight NXT  

Criteria - Available only for  NXT. Works for both Google and Outlook calendars. You should also be using Cockpit.

Timing - we want to choose testers no later than Feb 4!

Interested? Send me a DM or reply to this thread so we can get the conversation started. 

39 replies

aditya_marla
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
February 24, 2020

Hi @andreammelde 

Thanks a lot for sharing the feedback.

On #1) We wanted to add the ability to sync tasks as well based on the feedback and adoption we get. But this is something we definitely have on the roadmap for this feature. The main reason we did not add it initially is that we might end up cluttering users' calendars a lot.

Also what details about the task would you like to have visible in the calendar event? The names of the task/due dates?

On #2) Are you accessing Gainsight from within salesforce? Today we always redirect you to a Gainsight URL directly..this might be the reason for this. We will be fixing this behaviour soon (so that users don't need to login again)

Once again, thanks for sharing the feedback. Please share any other feedback you or your team have on the functionality or UX

Regards

joshua_roskos
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
March 3, 2020

This sounds like an awesome feature! I know in my role I would use this heavily! Couple questions…

  • Once out of beta, will this be available in the SFDC version?
  • Will this be available at the task level as these are the actual to-do’s in the CTA?
  • How will the CTA show in the calendar since there is no specific time denoted for CTA’s?
  • Are these events blocking time on the calendar or are they synced as reminders?
lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
March 3, 2020

Hi @joshua_roskos Thanks for your interest! I think I can answer most of your questions.

  • This feature is going to be available very soon to NXT customers only. 
  • In the initial release, as Aditya noted above, only CTAs will sync to your calendar. Task syncing is on the roadmap.
  • CTAs appear as Day Long events on your calendar, but they are marked as free, so as to not interfere with other events on your calendar.
Lila Krutel, Dir. Global Education Services
joshua_roskos
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
March 3, 2020

Thanks @lila_meyer

Is there any plan to bring this functionality to SFDC?

aditya_marla
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
March 4, 2020

Hi @joshua_roskos as of now, we don't have any plans of bringing this to the SFDC edition

joshua_roskos
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
March 4, 2020

That is disappointing, this would be an amazing feature to have... :frowning2:  

dan_ahrens
Expert ⭐️⭐️⭐️
March 4, 2020

Hi @joshua_roskos - completely understand where you’re coming from. NXT is the future of our platform and while we will be able to provide parity on some features to the old SFDC edition, on some things we won’t be able to make it happen. If you haven’t already, you should talk to your Gainsight CSM about when your organization can migrate to NXT. :)

VP of Customer Success at Forcepoint
andreammelde
Helper ⭐️⭐️
March 20, 2020

received feedback again that it is not helpful by CTA due date and would be much more helpful to sync tasks to calendar

Andrea Carroll
aditya_marla
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
March 23, 2020

Hi @andreammelde ,

Thanks a lot for sharing this feedback. We will consider this enhancement as a part of the features roadmap for sure.

Just confirming one thing, apart from having the tasks sync on the due date (similar to the CTA) would any kind of filtering be needed on what tasks should be synced? 

davebrown2242
Helper ⭐️
July 1, 2020

Hi @joshua_roskos as of now, we don't have any plans of bringing this to the SFDC edition

:(

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