Creating and Modifying Contact and Partner Roles for Opportunities
Introduction
This page allows you to create, modify, and delete contact roles for your opportunities. The descriptions in the document are also applicable when you want to create, modify, and delete partner roles. For more information on contact and partner roles, see Overview of Contact and Partner Roles for Opportunities.
Menu path
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To create a new contact role, go to Customers/Setup/Opportunity management/Contact roles, and then click New.
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To modify an existing contact role, go to Customers/Setup/Opportunity management/Contact roles. Click the relevant contact role in the Code column.
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To delete an existing contact role, go to Customers/Setup/Opportunity management/Contact roles. Select the check box for the relevant contact role and then click Delete. Alternatively, click the relevant contact role in the Code column and then click Delete.
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To create a new partner role, go to Customers/Setup/Opportunity management/Partner roles, and then click New.
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To modify an existing partner role, go to Customers/Setup/Opportunity management/Partner roles. Click the relevant partner role in the Code column.
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To delete an existing partner role, go to Customers/Setup/Opportunity management/Partner roles. Select the check box for the relevant partner role and then click Delete. Alternatively, click the relevant partner role in the Code column and then click Delete.
Roles & rights
To create, modify, and delete contact or partner roles, function right 604 – Maintain opportunity master data is required. Users with the General manager, Customer manager, and Marketing manager roles have this function right.
For more details on what you can do with function rights or levels, go to System/Setup/Security/Function rights, select the required module, and then click on the relevant ID. To find out the functions you can perform with a particular role, go to System/Setup/Security/Roles, type in the description, click Refresh, and then click the required link under the Role column.
Button
Save
Click this to save the contact role information.
Save + New
Click this to save the contact role information and create a new contact role.
Delete
Click this to delete the contact role. You will see a message "Confirm: Delete?" Click OK to delete or Cancel to cancel the deletion.
Note: This button is available only if you are modifying an existing contact role. You can delete the contact role only if the contact role is not used by any contacts in an opportunity card.
Close
Click this to exit.
Description
Contact roles section
Code
Type a unique alphanumeric code to identify the contact role. You can type up to three characters. This information is mandatory.
Note: If you are modifying the contact role information, this information cannot be edited.
Description
Type a description for the contact role. You can type up to 25 characters. This information is mandatory. The description will be displayed in the opportunity card when you select the contact role for the opportunity.
Related document
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Support Product Know How |
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Online help main |
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On-line help files |
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16.060.381 |
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Exact Synergy Enterprise
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06-12-2010 |
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