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1837827 - How to Define Customized Party Roles for Leads or Opportunities

Symptom

How to define party roles for Leads or Opportunities.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

This applies to both Leads and Opportunities. We will use Leads as an example:

  1. Go to the Marketing work center.
  2. Go to the Leads view.
  3. Show All Leads and Find XYZ (XYZ represents the ID of the lead).
  4. Edit the lead XYZ.
  5. Select the View All button and go to the Involved Parties tab.
  6. Select the drop down for the Party Role.

You want to add the customized party roles here.

Cause

The customized party roles can be added in the Business Configuration work center.

Resolution

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Select the button Open Activity List.
  4. Search for the activity Leads if you want to add the customized party to Leads or the activity Opportunities if you want to add the customized party to Opportunities.
  5. Open both the respective fine tuning activity.
  6. You can find Maintain Involved Parties link where determination of parties can be maintained.

Also Sales Unit party determination depends upon the work distribution rule maintained in the Business ByDesign system:

  1. Go to the Organizational Management work center.
  2. Select the Work Distribution view.
  3. Select the Organizational Work Distribution subview.
  4. For Sales (Opportunity, Sales Order): Define rule under Sales Unit for Sales and for Leads: Define rule under Marketing Unit for Leads.

Keywords

Party Role; Involved Parties; Opportunity; Lead , KBA , AP-OP-OP , Opportunity , AP-LP-LEA , Lead , How To

Product

SAP BUSINESS BYDESIGN 1611 ; SAP BUSINESS BYDESIGN 1705 ; SAP BUSINESS BYDESIGN 1708 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1302 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1305 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1308 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1311 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1402 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1405 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1608 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1702 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1711 ; SAP Business ByDesign feature pack 4.0