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lane_h
Helper ⭐️
April 20, 2016
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Adding Account Team Members through Gainsight

  • April 20, 2016
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We are working on bringing more of our teams into Gainsight. In doing so, we want to streamline their workflows to be using as few of tools as necessary. One thing we need managers and teams to be able to do is assign Technical Project Managers and Project Managers to accounts. Currently, these are setup as lookups in SFDC. Because of this, I believe, we aren't able to change them from fields in Gainsight.

We could write their name to a field in Gainsight, but we want to be able to trigger CTAs to them based on different factors on the accounts, and trigger emails to their customers. I'd like to do this without having to create 3+ custom fields for TPM and PMs in Gainsight (First Name, Last Name, Full Name, Email, User ID, etc.).

Is there a way to be able to assign TPMs and PMs in Gainsight where we could pull the same information we are able to for CSMs?

    18 replies

    olavo_zapata
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    May 21, 2018
    Same here too. +1
    cmultanen
    Helper ⭐️
    July 24, 2018
    This would be helpful for us as well.

    We are currently using bionic rules to map the CSM Team Lead and Implementation Manager from the Account Team to custom fields on the Customer Info object. This allows us to assign CTAs to these team members. 
    cmultanen
    Helper ⭐️
    February 6, 2019
    Any update on if the Account Team object will be supported in Gainsight?

    kyle_handley
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    December 12, 2019

    Short term you could replicate the Account Team object into the MDA, and use lookups for ID to a data synced (GS connect) field on the GS user object. 

     

    Account teams (like account contact relationships) could use some parity in gainsight. 

    May your day continue to be filled with awesome
    ml2019
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    April 12, 2020

    @kyle_handley 

    Can you please explain your workaround in more detail?

    kyle_handley
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    April 13, 2020

    @ml2019 

    1. Make an object in the MDA with fields to match the account teams object.
    1. Make a rule to populate the object.
      1. You’ll probably need both mappings (GSID lookup and SFDC ID mapping) 
    May your day continue to be filled with awesome
    sagan_sherlin
    Helper ⭐️⭐️
    April 20, 2021

    Hello! Outside of the workaround provided by Kyle, has there been any movement on this request?  For Account Teams from SFDC to be brought into Gainsight?

    dan_ahrens
    Expert ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    April 22, 2021

    Hi folks, this is accomplished by creating a custom field on the Gainsight Company object and then creating a derived mapping using the Salesforce connector (assuming you’re syncing with Salesforce) to map the User ID to that custom field. This will allow you to just create one mapping that can then be used to extract all other user fields like first name, last name, email, etc. 

     

    Custom field creation: https://support.gainsight.com/Gainsight_NXT/02Data_Management/Data_Implementation/03Gainsight_Company_Object#Fields_in_Company_Object

    Configuring Salesforce connector to use derived mappings: https://support.gainsight.com/SFDC_Edition/Connectors_(Horizon_Experience)/CRM_Integrations/Salesforce_Connector

     

    If anyone needs some hands on help to work through this, I’d recommend throwing the idea into the Office Hours thread for April 22nd’s session. 

     

    VP of Customer Success at Forcepoint