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jeff_waldman
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May 25, 2017
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Reporting on timeline activity content

  • May 25, 2017
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With the new Activity Timeline reporting capability you seem to be able to report on all fields except for the actual "Notes" field?  Would like to have a report of the most recent "update" across key accounts.  

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    nitisha_rathi
    Expert ⭐️⭐️
    May 26, 2017
    Hi Jeff,

    We have plans for improving timeline reporting. I will keep you updated as we make progress.

    Thanks,
    Nitisha
    reneehouse
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    May 26, 2017
    I agree with Jeff that this a big need. Do we know where this is on the roadmap?
    Renee House
    manu_mittal
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    May 26, 2017
    Wanted to clarify one thing: Notes are available as a hyperlink on the Activity Subject field. So as long as that's added to the tabular report, you should be able to click on it to see the associated note in its full UI experience. We are still working on how much of the rich text notes we want to directly expose inside simple reports, and in parallel working on bringing the Timeline UI itself to dashboards to directly expose most recent updates, for example, across a portfolio of customers.
    leslie_diephuis
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    May 31, 2017
    Do you need a license of Gainsight to see the link?
    melissa_i_959be6
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    June 13, 2017
    Just to add my two cents... Notes not being it's own text field in timeline reporting is delaying us from moving some reporting and processes over to Gainsight from Salesforce.  Senior management needs to be able to see a report and quickly scan the notes for several services at a time. Having to click into each one and it open in a new tab and then go back to the report is just not the experience they want to have.

    Very interested to see what you are planning for adding the actual notes text to reporting. I definitely think there's a lot of opportunity to improve upon how Saleforce handles long text fields.
    heather_hansen
    VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    August 1, 2017
    Agree with Melissa.  I was thinking that I could potentially build a Data Space to merge the Activity Timeline with the CSTask (since we are syncing to SF), but since you can't use MDA objects in Data Spaces yet, I wasn't able to do that.
    samantha_braastad
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    September 27, 2017
    Any update on having the ability to view the notes within Timeline in the reports themselves? This is blocking us from being able to use this feature to gather back feedback from the customer. 
    nitisha_rathi
    Expert ⭐️⭐️
    September 28, 2017
    This will be available in fall release. Thanks!
    lane_h
    Helper ⭐️
    January 17, 2018
    With the fall release you can now pull notes into reports. Keep in mind, due to the type of field the Notes section is, you are not able to filter, group by, or aggregate it.

    However, you can also pull it into the drill down if you use any chart type.
    Director of CX and Scale Programs
    melissa_i_959be6
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    January 24, 2018
    It's great that we can now add the Notes field to reporting!  Curiosity question... though it's not available now, any talk about eventually allowing us to filter on the notes field?  My main use case would be the "contains" filter if we are looking for notes on a specific topic or mentioning certain keywords.