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The CRM Zen Show Episode 252 – I Blessed the CRMs Down in Africa

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Implementation of the Week

  • XML Related List in CRM to Show Purchase Orders Related to a Deal
    • In this implementation, we were working with a customer that uses Zoho CRM and Zoho Books to manage their sales processes
    • They don’t carry any inventory, so all Sales Orders need to be back-ordered. This works great in Books, as we can create a Purchase Order directly from the Sales Order for this use-case
    • However, in CRM, you can only see Estimates, Sales Orders, and Invoices from within the Deal view. This causes a problem when the customer calls in to check on order status, as the sales-person would need to access Zoho Books to answer
    • To solve for this, we first used a custom Deluge function in Zoho Books to assign the Deal ID to the Purchase Order when it is created from a Sales Order (the Sales Order stores this for us natively via the integration)
    • Then, because we have our Deal ID assigned to the Purchase Order, we can create an XML related list that can display all relevant Purchase Order data for the Sales Orders related to that particular Deal

Code Share of the Week

  • Use RegEx to Find an Order Number In a Desk Email Body 
    • This code uses the “Get Latest Thread” API call to get the last message associated to a ticket and searches for an order number with the prefix DP (ignoring case) followed by 8 numbers. There may be any number of spaces or dashes between the DP prefix and the numbers.

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