While using the Gmail calendar, you can log a calendar item directly to a
Vantagepoint record. This creates an immediate association and, upon synchronization, adds a calendar item to the Activities tab for the associated
Vantagepoint record.
Important:
Vantagepoint also adds the contact for the calendar item as an invitee and automatically sends an invitation to that calendar event using Gmail's standard functionality.
Pre-requisites:
- Create a Connect user.
- Set up synchronization.
Video:
See related video below
To open a Gmail calendar item in the
Vantagepoint Context Pane:
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From your Gmail calendar, open a calendar item.
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On the calendar item's dialog box, click
and select
Open
Vantagepoint.
The Context Pane opens and populates the fields with the calendar item's information. For example, the attendees, the project record, associated firm, and so on.
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Use the Context Pane to search for and select additional
Vantagepoint information for which you want to log or record the calendar item.
This may include contacts, projects, or firms from the Context Pane. For example, if you search for and select a project record in the Context Pane, you can log the calendar item and when you synchronize the item is associated with the project.
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After you locate the record, click the Log Event button on the Context Pane.
The next time that you synchronize, the item's details will be added to
Vantagepoint. This includes all of the
contacts and
employees who attended that meeting.
If you add a contact to any item in your calendar, the contact is added as an invitee to that calendar item and they will be sent an invitation. If you would like to add an activity to
Vantagepoint without sending a meeting invitation, you can select
Add Activity from the menu in the context pane and select a non-calendar type. For example, you may have an activity type for Quick Check-in that is not set up as a calendar type in
. If you select
Quick Check-in as the type of activity, it will not appear in the calendar and the associated contacts will not be invited to a meeting.
For more on using the Context Pane, see
Context Pane for Gmail Quick Reference.
Video
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Description
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Vantagepoint Connect for GMAIL: Introduction
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Within this tutorial, watch short videos to learn about the key features of
Vantagepoint Connect for Gmail.
The videos are:
- Launch the Contextual Pane
- Contextual Pane Options
- Contextual Pane Search Feature
- Display Records
- Create an Activity from an Email
- Create a Contact from an Email
- Create a New Contact
- Create a Firm
- Sync the Calendar
- Sync Contacts
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