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Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

The ability to Customize the List Member View of a marketing list has not been made available in the Customization area of the UI, but can still be achieved with the UI in other means by using the Advanced Find feature.

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Fig 1: Marketing List Detail Form displaying “List Member View”

A Marketing List can only be 1 of 3 types, an Account, Contact, or Lead. By default each of these 3 entities has a view associated with it named “All Members”, "Active Members", and "Inactive Members". The view that is displayed for the List Member View is based on the marketing list type. For example if the List is an Account type Marketing List, then only the Account entity views of “All Members”, “Active Members”, and “Inactive Members” will be available. The Lead and Contact entities also has these three views, but they will not be available to a Marketing List of type Account.

I will provide an example below of adding a single column only to the “All Members” view for all 3 entities, “Account”, “Contact”, and “Lead” for a total of 3 view modifications. Note: You must have permissions for Customizations to perform the following steps.

How To:

Step 1: Launch Advanced Find

Step 2: When Advanced Find Dialog opens, change the “Look for” Combo box to be “Views”

Step 3: Change the Select Option to “View”, “Equals”

Step 4: Use the Lookup to find “All Members”. NOTE: You will see 3 “All Members” listed in your Lookup window, each one represents an Account, Contact, or Lead “All Members View”. For this example select all three. Optional, you can save your view query for future use.

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Fig 2: Advanced Find Dialog

Step 5: Click Find on the Advanced Find Dialog and you should now have a results page listing three “All Members” Views, representing the “All Members” view for an Account, Contact, and Lead. Double Click on Each View to open.

Step 6: When each View is Opened, Select the “Add Columns” button and a property list will appear. Choose a property from the list you want to have displayed as a column by check enabling the box next to the property, in this example I will be choosing the property “E-mail”. Exit the property dialog by clicking ‘OK’ after making your selection.

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Fig 4: All Members View for Account after adding the E-mail Column

Step 7: You are free to make other modifications to this View as well, such as column and sort order. Make your changes, Select “Save and Close”, and repeat (if desired) to the other “All Members” views returned by the Advanced Find Query.

Step 8: Important! Finally we need to publish these changes before they can become active. The saved view you modified will appear as an additional item (draft) until it is published and overwrites the existing View. Navigate in the system to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Customization’ -> ‘Customize Entities’. Under the menu Item “More Actions” Select “Publish All Customizations” or you can Use the “Publish” Button.

Important Note: Use the “Publish” button To ONLY publish the highlighted Entity row from the Grid (for example if you customized the memberlist view for Contacts, then select the ‘Contact’ entity item in the grid before pressing Publish. If Using “Publish All Customizations”, be aware that every customization pending in the system will be published!

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Result: The List Member View has been modified…

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Fig 5: Modified List Member View

Cheers,

Jim Schumacher

Published Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:31 AM by crmblog

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# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Thanks, Jim!

My earlier online help request about how to do this yielded a "not possible" response.

Cheers,

~Paul

Monday, April 07, 2008 2:29 AM by Paul

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Is there a way of using the advanced find feature to update a list of contacts.

In my particular example i have created a custom entity "Events" and want to search through all contacts using advanced find and invite them to any of the active events.

In Marketing Lists you can manage a list of members is this functionality re-usuable in other areas?

Thanks

Ben

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:49 AM by Ben Kennedy

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hi,

I am using a Ms CRM French version, and I can not search for "all members", I have tried with "tout le monde", "tout", "toutes" and some other variations, but I have not reach this point: " NOTE: You will see 3 “All Members” listed in your Lookup window, each one represents an Account, Contact, or Lead “All Members View” "

Can you give me some advice, please?

Kind Regards,

Guillermo

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:32 AM by Larethian

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Thank you for your comments. Guillermo, I'm setting up a French server to be able to help you out, and Ben, I'm looking into your question as well, so please return soon and I should have something posted.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:22 PM by Jim

# French Server, Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Guillermo,

Yes This can be done with the French CRM Server. I verified it this morning.

Ok, When you launch the Advanced Find Window, and from the instructions you first change Rechercher: to "Vues" next set Sélectionner to "Vue Est égal à", you then click the lookup button "Entrer une valeur" a lookup dialog will appear.  The lookup should read....Rechercher: Vue   and then next to the lookup eye glass, type in the input field, depending on which of the views you want to modify... "Membres inactifs" or "Membres actifs" or "Tous les membres" you should then see 3 of the view type you are looking for. Select them by highlighting them and then clicking the "right moving arrows".  Click 'OK'

A nice easy way also, is to create a new marketing list, save, click "Membres de la liste marketing" and in the upper right hand corner of the form you will see Afficher: this view selector will contain the exact Name of the view you are trying to search for when using the advanced Find.

Hope this Helps,

Jim

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:42 PM by Jim

# re: Advanced Find Feature to add contacts to Entity

Ben,

I think what you are trying to do is use Advanced Find and use the returned entities by adding them to your custom entity.  For Adding Items to an entity, the out of Box MSCRM solution uses a Lookup feature.  Currently doing a Filtered Lookup is not available out of the box.  You can however, if you feel code savvy, download the SDK and I would recommend writing a script using the RetrieveMultiple Request.  

Other than that I know there are 3rd party Microsoft Partners developing such tools that you may be able to install as an add-on.   You can search for items in http://code.msdn.microsoft.com or post a request to the Crm developer newsgroup and ask if anyone knows where to buy such an add-on.  The link to the newsgroup is at http://www.microsoft.com/Businesssolutions/Community/Newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.crm.developer&lang=en&cr=US

Thanks,

Jim

Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:36 PM by Jim

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Thanks fo your advice Jim,

I will investigate.

Regards

Friday, April 11, 2008 5:24 PM by Benkennedy1

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Thanks for this information Jim.  You can use the above method to modify other views (opportunties, accounts selected in quick campaigns, etc) as well!

Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:08 AM by Glen Roberts

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Jim,

At step 6 (add columns), I don't see the contacts column. I only see: Name, Description, created by,... It look to be the column of the View table.

Do you have an idea ...

Thanks,

Sylvain

Friday, May 23, 2008 3:37 PM by Sylvain

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Sylvain,

Step 6 describes how to add additional columns to the view by clicking the "Add Column" button, and then selecting a property from the attribute list to be used as a new displayed column.

Hope this helps,

Jim

Monday, June 02, 2008 12:22 PM by Jimsch71

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hi Jim, Thanks for this tip; Worked a treat. Do you know if this technique can be used to modify the Campaign Responses list view in the main pane, found in the Details submenu under a specific campaign? I can't find it in the views list as described above, but maybe I'm missing it. Alternatively, do you have any other tips to do this? Thanks!

Friday, June 13, 2008 12:50 PM by DanM

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

DanM,

Do step 1 and Step 2 only from above, and then jump to step 5.  This will return ALL views for the system.  on the bottom right hand side of the query results dialog, you will see some page advance arrows. Continue to advance until you get to the Campaign Response Views.  

Jim

Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:49 PM by Jimsch71

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hi Jim,

I would like to add columns from related entity (custom entity) to associated view of another custom entity.

Is it possible by this approac or by any other means. I could not find any way to accomplish that.

H J

Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:58 PM by H J

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

The associated view currently does not support displaying of related entities' fields like other views could.  This is a very common request, I'd recommend submitting this feature request for future versions/updates.

Frank Lee, Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP

http://www.workopia.com/Links.htm

Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:09 PM by Frank Lee

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hi Jim,

I want to display in the contact associated view inactive contact. It was possible in version 3.0, and now in version 4.0 I don't fond any way to do this. Could you help me?

Thanks in advance,

Val

Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:14 PM by Val

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

This might seem like a silly question but when you say "Launch the advanced find" I can do that by clicking on the manage members button which then asks me how I want to find.  Then in there I don't see the view selection option you are talking about.

Friday, September 26, 2008 1:44 PM by Jaydel

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hi, The Advanced find I was referring to wasn't the Adv Find to add members to a Marketing List, but the Advanced Find for all entities.  You can find this button on the Main Form you see when you logon, located on the toolbar across the top.  the non-customized out of the Box CRM Toolbar list the following items on this toolbar "New activity" "New Record" "Goto" "Tools" and then "Advanced Find".  It has the Icon of the Binoculars.  Remember, This however isn't quite the same as the Adv Find you use to add members to a List.

Jim

Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:47 PM by Jim

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Thanks! That's exactly what I wanted to do. Unfortunately, I'm unable to fully customize the view. But I was still able to add some important fields like Parent Customer.

Thanks for making me look like a hero :)

Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:33 AM by Eric

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hi, I add the field Parent Customer to List Meber View. Now the Index Letters for search doesn't work correct. example: click index letter m, if the memebers name is miller and the parent customer is Moonliner ok - if its differnet like Balmer under the customer Moonliner the search returns no results.

Thanks in advance,

Ueli

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:29 AM by Ueli

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Ueli,

The index letters will only work on the list member search items primary search key (such as the contact's name).  The search keys not working on your sorted parent customer column that you added to the list member view doesn't have to do with your customization.  For example, If you sort on one of the default out of the box columns, such as "Address1: City", you will notice that the index letters do not function as I believe you were expecting as well.  This is great feedback though, and I will create a suggestion item for this.  

Thank you :o)

Jim

Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:27 PM by Jim

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Awesome!  President of the company asked for this customization yesterday.  I was not optimistic.

Hope the meetimg my boss and the pres or in ends before I go home!

Thanks so much for helping us out.

Jim

Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:18 PM by JimB

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hi,

how can i change the view for the members in a marketing list?. I found nothing to change the f.e. contacts list. I get the 3 columns with the name, tel. and city and i cannot change anything.

thx4help.

Herkules

Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:40 AM by Herkules

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Sorry, im blind. Now i got it.

Just opend my eyes and read.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:37 AM by Herkules

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hello, thank you for this great entry!

I was alqays told, that customizing the columns in a marketing list was not possible, now I see, that is is  - unfortunately for me only theoretically:

I have severe problems at step 8:

When I navigate to Settings --> Customization there are no features, only the possibility to download data with the description of the web service. (The German message reads "Dateien mit Beschreibung des Webdiesntes herunterladen") I then have the possibility to download a "main Data Web Service" or a "Metadata Web Service". The only results are new tabs with something that looksw a little bit like html code.

Am I in the wrong settings menu?

Thanks for your help!

Stephan

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:55 AM by Stephan

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Great Post - help me generate a ton of value with MS CRM for marketing purposes.

Thanks!

Charles

Friday, October 30, 2009 2:58 PM by Charles

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Great! Works perfectly, thanks! Jan

Monday, November 02, 2009 6:17 AM by Jan Havel

# re: Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Thank you very much for this amazingly helpful post.

I have looked several times before for a way to do this and now it works.

Brilliant thanks

Chris

Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:23 AM by Chris Cox

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