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dan_ahrens
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April 29, 2016
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Outlook/Google Calendar integration to Automatically create a CTA

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  • April 29, 2016
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Hi - an idea that was shared with my by one of my customers was related to creating CTAs automatically through Outlook/Google calendar integration. The use case is as follows:
  • CSM creates a calendar meeting request to their customer to schedule a meeting. While in the calendaring app, they have an option to click a button that will sync that meeting to a CTA in Gainsight.
  • The CTA will be created using relevant content from the meeting request (some details will have to be worked out as to how the correct customer is selected and how other mandatory fields are populated)
  • CTA is now ready to be actioned upon once the meeting is held and the notes are added to the CTA or chatter feed for that customer. 
This would allow for reduction of an extra manual step and will especially assist in cases where customers do not have standing recurring meetings, but instead meet in an ad-hoc basis.

    41 replies

    candacemarie_mitcham
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    January 19, 2018
    Agreed!  We have like asks from our CSMs.
    Candace-Marie Mitcham - Escalations Manager, Client Sales - 8x8
    Expert ⭐️
    October 28, 2020

    Hello All,
    This post of multiple request, let me update what is available right now and what is planned.

    Currently available:

    • Chrome plugin & Outlook add-in for Gmail & Outlook email respectively, which allows users to consume email templates in Gmail and log emails to timeline from Gmail.
    • Syncing the CTA’s to user calendar, Gcal and Outlool calendar.

    Planned:

    • Chrome plugin and Outlook add-in for Gcal and Outlook calendar to log the events from calendars to timeline. Here is the glimpse of how it will look in Gcal.

       

     

    katie_b
    Helper ⭐️
    March 31, 2021

    @chethana What is the status of the calendar plugin to log meetings to timeline? Will this be a separate extension, or just an upgrade to the existing Gainsight Assist extension?

    Katie Baker
    Expert ⭐️
    April 8, 2021

    Hello @katie_b 
    We are yet to start working on this, plan is to start this starting coming quarter. I will keep you posted about updates.

    Contributor ⭐️
    April 16, 2021

    Hi @chethana You mention that you plan to start work on this in the coming quarter - do you mean Q3 2021? Is this piece of work likely to be delivered before the end of Q3 then?

    Expert ⭐️
    April 16, 2021

    Hello @Andy_Lewis 
    Yes, we are planning to start in Q3 2021.

    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    May 7, 2021

    Will this be available in Gainsight SFDC, or just Gainsight NXT?  If just NXT, when do you plan to support these features in SFDC?

    Expert ⭐️
    May 27, 2021

    Hello @LoLock 

    This will be available for both editions.

    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    May 27, 2021

    Hi @chethana Thank you for the follow-up.  FYI - I’m in SFDC edition.  I want to get clarity on your response.

     

    6 months ago (See in this thread) you mentioned that CTA sync to GCAL is already available, but I don’t see any documentation for how I can do this within SFDC.  Is this available to us?  Or is it only available for NXT?  If it is not available for SFDC, when will it be?

    Additionally, it looks like the upcoming release will allow us to log our GCAL events to timeline activity in a similar fashion to how we log our gmail emails?   Am I reading this correctly?

    Expert ⭐️
    June 15, 2021

    Hello @LoLock 

    Creating CTA in Gcal is available for only NXT. i was referring to the ability mentioned above where logging meeting to timeline directly from Gcal, this will be avaialble in both SFDC and NXT.