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Introducing Workbooks 5.0

Type: #PR

10th, December 2016, London, England: Workbooks are pleased to announce Workbooks 5.0 the latest release of their award winning CRM platform.

 

Release 5.0 arrives with a huge amount of new functionality including new Zapier triggers, Mapping Module, additional Reporting and Customisation.

 

Please explore below to dive into each area:

 

Mapping Module – out of beta

 

Mapping example

 

This is a great tool that allows users to show records, such as Organisations, as a location on a map on a Landing Page. You can then filter by distance to find the records that are closest to any given location e.g. within 1 mile of your office.

 

Additionally, you can use maps within Reports, which will enable you to create map views of records, such as Opportunities, via the location of the prospect or customer.

 

A ‘Nearby’ tab also appears on Organisation records, making it easy for you to see which other Organisations are within 20 miles of the record that you have open.

 

You can find more detailed information, including a short video, in our Mapping Module Knowledge Base article.

 

Note: As this is a chargeable add-on, in order to access the features for this module, you will need to email sales@workbooks.com to request a trial. Our Pricing page also lists down the monthly cost.

 

Processes – grid processed added

 

We have added a new type of process called a Grid Process. Grid processes are set up in a similar way to button processes; you access them from a context menu in a list (either on a Landing Page or a Tab) to run a process from there. For example, to create an Opportunity or an Order from a Campaign Member:

 

Grid Processes

 

For further information about how to set these processes up, please visit our Processes Knowledge Base article.

 

Processes will automatically be disabled when copying a database

 

When creating a copy of a database, those processes which required access to internet resources outside of Workbooks will now automatically be disabled. You can re-enable them, if needed, by ticking the ‘enable’ checkbox after opening the Process. This is a safety feature to avoid processes within your test databases from being able to modify data outside Workbooks at the same time as your main database.

 

Customisation – creation of picklists

 

Picklists can be created within Add Custom Field > Picklist

 

 

Customisation

 

 

Previously, to add a new picklist you would have to do this via the Picklist section within Customisation. However, this also meant that if you forgot to create the picklist before going to create the custom field, you would have to abandon your changes and go to create it.

 

We have now made it possible to create a picklist when adding the custom field by using the green plus button.

 

Fields

 

You will be able to add ‘info text’ when editing a form layout by selecting the ‘Add new Information Message Field’ button on the Fields tab.

 

 

 

This may be useful for providing additional guidance to your users when completing forms, or perhaps act as reminders to ask for specific information.

 

 

 

New Checkbox data type within Transaction Line Item Custom Fields list

 

It is now possible to create a custom Line Item field of type ‘Checkbox’

 

Emails – use templated in replied to or forwarded

 

You can now use templates within replies or forwarded emails without it clearing the original content of the email.

 

Reporting – report on emails

 

You can now report on emails to, from or related to a Person or Leads by drilling through Emails and adding the relevant columns to the report.

 

 

Emails report

 

 

In addition, you can also report on emails related to Cases and Opportunities by drilling through Related Emails.

 

Examples of how you might use this to report on emails can be found in our Forum posts:

 

You can now drill down to Activities from a Product within Product reports using the Activities breadcrumb.

 

Landing Pages – new button added

 

Our Support team are often asked how to perform bulk actions on Activities. This is actually done via the Tasks or Meetings landing pages, so we have added a new ‘Bulk Actions’ button to the All Activities landing page to provide guidance on this. This button will always be greyed out, but includes hover text to advise that the bulk actions must take place on the Meetings / Tasks Landing Page instead.

 

 

Landing pages

 

 

Zapier integration – more triggers added

 

It is now possible to create and configure triggers on additional record types. Triggers are a predefined action that activates a Webhook or Webhooks. Examples of possible Triggers include the creation of a Case or the Qualification of a Sales Lead. They are also used by the Zapier Integration to create Zaps with other applications.

 

The additional triggers added include:

 

 

    • Orders

 

    • Quotations

 

    • Contracts

 

    • Supplier Orders

 

    • Opportunities

 

    • Products

 

    • Marketing Campaigns

 

    • Meetings

 

    • API Data

 

 

You can find further information about Triggers and Zapier, such as what these are and how to use them in our Knowledge Base.