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aaronhatton
Helper ⭐️⭐️
July 19, 2024
Discovery

Add the ability to create contact records from a timeline entry

Related products:CS C360 & R360 & P360
  • July 19, 2024
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It would be great if I could add a new contact from Timeline entries. The contact I am trying to add as an external attendee doesn't exist so now I need to go back to people, add them, then try again (less likely to do that). If I could be prompted to add the contact, fill in any fields required and hit save, then continue doing my timeline entry, it could help ensure proper record keeping

 

 

11 replies

Anyberg
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
July 22, 2024

This would be a huge time savings for CSMs/End Users! It would also help keep customer contacts up to date since we could more easily add in new contacts.

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
October 21, 2024

Any updates on this? My CSMs are requesting this feature

ChiragJ
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
November 5, 2024

@aaronhatton and others, thanks for sharing your feedback.  I have noted and added this to roadmap for prioritization. However we have other priorities that may take over so this may not be picked up in our near term feature deliverables. 

ChiragJ
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
November 5, 2024
New IdeaDiscovery
dayn.johnson
VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 6, 2024

This would be a huge time savings for CSMs/End Users! It would also help keep customer contacts up to date since we could more easily add in new contacts.

 

Not sure whether this would be a new idea or not, but on a similar note, it’d be really cool to be able to update Company Person fields from the Timeline Entries to make maintaining data a bit easier. Ex:

  • Title Change
  • Role Change (key contact, etc.)
  • Name Change (if incomplete data)
  • etc.

@kim_stone @kstim for vis.

Staff CS Content & Comms Manager, 2x Gainsight CS Ops Product Council Member
Contributor ⭐️
March 31, 2026

@ChiragJ - Our CS Team is also looking for this capability as this will be a time saver for them. Can you please let us know if there is any update on this?

ChiragJ
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
April 9, 2026

 This is noted , but not on our current H1 roadmap . ​@Abid Md 

dayn.johnson
VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 8, 2026

Any info on when this might be delivered? This would be a welcome QoL update.

Staff CS Content & Comms Manager, 2x Gainsight CS Ops Product Council Member
ChiragJ
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
June 17, 2026

@dayn.johnson We are doing analysis on this from our side , since Contact creation also supports company association. Some considerations we are making is when contact is created from timeline , -

  • Should we default it to the company of the activity?
  • Should we allow mapping them as relationship person? 
  • Should we also allow association to other companies the activity doesn’t belong to? Or limit it to any associations within the activity?

Feedback from this group is welcomed as we conclude the path forward. We can expect his someting in H2 this year

Jef Vanlaer
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 17, 2026

This would be a big time saver for CSMs indeed.

@ChiragJ Regarding your questions:

  • Yes, default to the Company of the Activity
  • Yes, if the Activity is created on a Relationship, map them as a Relationship Person on that Relationship. If it’s created on a Company, leave the option to map a Relationship manually.
  • I don’t see a use case for associating to other Companies/Relationships directly. I also don’t think this is possible when creating a contact directly from C360 or R360 today?