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Setting up and using Proposal Builder on Salesforce (Classic)
Updated 4 months ago

Overview

Note: Contact support@responsive.io to access this feature or request enablement.

Once you have the Responsive package installed and set up on your Salesforce account you can set up Proposal Builder.

If you need to install and configure Responsive on Salesforce:

Setting up Proposal Builder on Salesforce

  1. Go to Opportunities and select an opportunity.
    Note: If you don’t have any opportunities you can create one by clicking Create New > Opportunity.
  2. Click Edit Layout then click Visualforce pages.
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  3. Drag and drop Section into the opportunity to create a new section.
  4. Type 800 in the Height (in pixels) field to add extra space when viewing the projects.
  5. Select the Show Scrollbars and/or Show Label checkboxes if applicable.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Drag and drop ResponsiveProposalOpportunity into the newly created section.
  8. Click Save. The Proposal Builder pane opens listing the opportunity.

Repeat a similar process to edit the layouts for other object types such as Leads and Accounts.

Connecting to Responsive

After completing the setup above, you must connect to Responsive from Salesforce in order to launch Responsive projects, associate existing projects from Responsive to Salesforce, or remove any associated projects.

  1. Click Connect To Responsive, login with your Responsive credentials, and click Continue. The Responsive Proposal Builder section displays as shown:
    SFDC - Responsive Proposal - Section.png
  2. Do the following as necessary:
    Note: Once set up, you can also click Launch Responsive to launch the application in a new tab.
    • Generate new proposals.
    • Associate proposals to existing opportunities.
    • Remove associated proposals.

Generating new proposals

In Salesforce, open the Responsive Proposal Builder section and click New Proposal, then follow the instructions for building proposals.

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Associating proposals to existing opportunities

You can associate existing proposals from Salesforce or Responsive.
Note: The Salesforce [i] Integration - Salesforce - 01.png indicator appears next to proposals associated with Salesforce opportunities.

Associate existing proposals from Salesforce

  1. In Salesforce, open the Responsive Proposal Builder section and click Associate Existing Proposals.
  2. Select the proposal(s) and click Associate Existing Proposals.
    Note: You can also bulk-select multiple proposals in Responsive and associate them to an Opportunity on Salesforce.

Associating existing proposals from Responsive

  1. In Responsive, select the proposal you want to associate with an opportunity and click Edit Proposal.
  2. Click the Salesforce [i] Integration - Salesforce - 01.png icon next to the proposal name.
  3. Find and select the opportunity you want to the proposal with using the search box and click Add to create the association.
    Note: You can also associate a proposal to an opportunity while creating a proposal on responsive using the same steps mention in this section.

Removing associated proposals

You can remove associated proposals from Salesforce or Responsive.

Removing associated proposals from Salesforce

  1. In Salesforce, open the Responsive Proposal Builder section and click Remove Associated Proposals.

  2. Click Remove Association and select the proposals, then click Save.

Removing associated proposals from Responsive

  1. In Responsive, click the Trash [i] PB - Trash.png icon next to the proposal name.
  2. Click Confirm on the Remove Association pop-up.
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