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If you are an administrator you can change some of the drop-down selection options in Phocas CRM to suit your business needs. For example, in the type 'Tasks' you might want to add a new Status option called 'Allocated.' You do this through the Picklists screen. 

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Picklist options

Administrators can edit the following pick lists in CRM. 

PicklistWhere it appears in CRM

Typical options (shown in this documentation)

Call Type

Phone Log

Follow Up

Initial Call

Support Call

Sales Call

Quotation

Contact Method

Account Record

Contact Record

Lead Record

Email

Face-to-face

Fax

Instant Messenger

Letter

Phone

Job Title

Contact Record

Lead Record

Director

Manager

Salesperson

Accounts

Sales Manager

Payment StatusAccount Record

Current

Overdue

Status

Meeting

Task

Cancelled

Completed

Deferred

In Progress

Not Started

Overdue

Waiting on Someone

Editing CRM Picklists

  1. From the Administration module, select the 'More...' Image Removed dropdown > CRM Picklists as shown below, to open the Picklists screen.
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  2. From the Picklists screen you can change values for the Call Type, Contact Method, Job Title, Payment Status and Status fields, via the tabs at the top. To add a new value select the tab required and choose Add (in the screen shot below the Status tab has been selected).
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  3. In the dialog that opens, name the Name the new value (in the image below, the administrator wants to create a new option named 'Allocated') and Save.
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Users will now see the new value in the dropdown under Status.

 

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