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sagan_sherlin
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October 3, 2018
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Idea. The ability to use Multi-Select Drop Downs in Timeline Activity Type Setups.

Related products:CS Timeline & Activity Tracking
  • October 3, 2018
  • 59 replies
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I'm working on expanding one of our (custom) Timeline Activity Types and realized that I can't use the Multi-Select Drop Down.  I can only use Single Select Drop Down.

Is there a possibility of expanding out the Timeline to include Multi-Select Drop Down options?  

Use Case:  We have a user who is speaking with our customers about a new product feature and often times covers a number of topics when speaking to the customer.  We use Timeline to post all of our updates - as it's easier for everyone to see what's going on.  [<3 Global Timeline] We're running into a problem of how to 'tag' the features she covers so it's reportable.  One idea that we had was to use the Drop Down (Category) feature.  As the reporting looks nice and breaks it out - so we could in turn get numbers based off the features covered.  [But in current production, Drop Down only supports Single Select.]

[i]Additional Information: When updating or creating a new Timeline Activity Type; under the Configuration Layout field - there are a number of Field Types, Drop Down being one of them.  However in the current case, the Category that you want to be featured here must be a Single Selec[i]t.  If listed as a Multi-Select it will not appear as an available Category for you.

Thank you for reading!

    59 replies

    meenal_shukla
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    August 6, 2019
    Outplay. Outwit. Outlast.
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    August 6, 2019
    We're using timeline as way to track activities related to org level initatives. Sometimes a meeting covers multiple initiatitves so a multi-picklist would make a lot of sense here. There aren't great alternatives: Logging multiple activities or adding a free text field.

    Helper ⭐️
    August 20, 2019
    We have this exact use case! Would love to see this as a future enhancement.

    bfoley
    Contributor ⭐️
    October 9, 2019
    Would love to see this added as a feature for Timeline support.

    anna_whitehouse
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    November 18, 2019

    Any update on this? I need it for the same use case as the original post. 

    jnoble100
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    November 20, 2019

    Have set up a similar multiple select dropdown to add as a field to my activities but it should be set as single select. And I can’t use it on Timeline now as it’s set to multi-select and no way to change it or even delete it.

    Helper ⭐️
    March 6, 2020

    +1!!

    Anastassia Goidina
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    April 6, 2020

    +1

    This would also be useful for my team - behind the cockpit/CTAs, the timeline is our number 2 most used feature.

    lyne_therien
    Helper ⭐️
    April 22, 2020

    Came across the same problem. Conversation with customer can cover several topics and we’d like to have a multi-select fields to identify them.

     

    I see a lot of interest for this feature but only 3 votes. Please vote this up!

    sacha
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    April 22, 2020

    Backed hard!