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When reporting on TL entries associated to closing a CTA, we are struggling to find a way to link the TL entries initiated using the Outlook Plugin to the CTA.  Without that Context ID of “CTA” the TL entry is orphaned from the CTA it was meant to close.  Is there a way to associate TL entries after they have been made back to a CTA?

Hello @2percent_jazz ,

We cannot directly associate the CTA when logging emails to the timeline from the Outlook plugin; the user must manually go into the instance and associate the particular timeline entry with the CTA. We can associate it using the 'Associated Record' option in the timeline.

Please find the support document.

I hope the above explanation addresses your question. If not, please let me know if I misunderstood your inquiry.


Hi ​@Vipin I think this is something that should be considered as an Enhancement. Having to manually associate an Email to a CTA after the fact is not a positive user experience and will likely not happen. Having this ability is something that would allow our teams to consider adding the Gainsight outlook plug in, because without being able to associate to a CTA the plug in has less value. 


@sjacobi123 There was a VCAM this week about improvements to the Gainsight Assist plugin during which we discussed displaying, at least all required fields on each entry, as well as potentially optional fields (which this would be). I’m not guaranteeing all that was discussed will turn to life, but I believe we made progress as a group on which direction the plugin is going… and hopefully it’s going in the direction of populating more fields from timeline… associated records might be one of those in the end. 


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