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Products and Quotes

Overview

The Products and Quotes section of the Admin panel enables you to define products and product details that are used in modules that are exclusive to Sugar Sell users. The Products and Quotes panel provides access to the following modules:

Module Description
Product Catalog List of products sold by your organization; used as a template for the Quoted Line Items and Revenue Line Items modules for Sugar Sell users.
Product Categories Populates the categories by which products are organized in the Product Catalog.
Product Types Populates the Type dropdown list in the Product Catalog.
Manufacturers Populates the Manufacturer Name dropdown list in the Product Catalog.

Please note the following as pertains to access and visibility of Product Catalog-related modules:

  • Quotes Configuration, Shipping Providers, and Tax Rates are additional modules that work with the Product Catalog but are not accessible by Sugar Serve users. For more information on license types and the functionality available for each, refer to the License Types Matrix documentation. 
  • For some older, unsupported versions of Sugar, the Product Catalog, Product Categories, Product Types, and Manufacturers modules were only available to Administrator users. Information specific to these modules can now be found in the Product Catalog documentation in the Application Guide.
  • For Sugar Serve users to leverage the Product Catalog, an administrator would need to add a custom relate field from the Product Catalog module to a supported Sugar Serve module (i.e., Bugs, Cases, or Knowledge Base). For more information on setting up a Product Catalog field for bugs, cases, or knowledge base articles, please refer to the Creating a Relate Field article.

For instructions concerning views and actions which are common across most Sugar modules, such as creating, editing, and deleting records, please refer to the Working With Sugar Modules section of this page.

Product Catalog, Product Categories, Product Types, and Manufacturers

For some older, unsupported versions of Sugar, the Product Catalog, Product Categories, Product Types, and Manufacturers modules were only available to Administrator users but can now be accessed by all users subject to license type and standard role and team restrictions. Information specific to these modules can now be found in the Product Catalog documentation in the Application Guide.

Working With Sugar Modules

The Shipping Providers and Tax Rates modules use Sugar's Sidecar user interface. The following sections detail menus, views, and actions common to sidecar modules and contain links to additional information within the page or links to the User Interface documentation.

Sugar modules contain various options that are available via menus in the module tab, list view, and record view. The following sections present each menu type, using the Shipping Providers module as an example, and its options with links to more information about each option in the User Interface documentation or, for module-specific functionality, within this page.

Module Tab Menus

The Shipping Providers list view can be accessed by navigating to the Admin page and selecting "Shipping Providers" under the Product and Quotes panel. Click the tab to access the Shipping Providers list view. You may also click the three-dots menu in the Shipping Providers tab to display the Actions and Recently Viewed menus. The Actions menu allows you to perform important actions within the module. The Recently Viewed menu displays the list of shipping providers you most recently viewed. 

The module tab's Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations:

Menu Item Description
Shipping Provider List

Opens the Shipping Providers list view layout to search and display shipping providers.

Tax Rate List Opens the Tax Rates list view layout to search and display tax rates.

List View Menus

The Shipping Providers list view displays all shipping provider records and allows for searching and filtering to locate specific shipping providers. You can view the basic details of each record within the field columns of the list view or click the shipping provider's name to open the record view. To access the module's list view, simply navigate to the Admin page and select "Shipping Providers" under the Product and Quotes panel. You can also click the module's tab in the navigation bar once the Shipping Providers module opens.

List View Mass Actions Menu

The Mass Actions menu to the right of the checkbox option in the list header allows you to perform mass actions on all currently selected records. You can use the checkbox on each record's row to select individual shipping provider records or click the checkbox in the list header to select all records displayed on the current set of list view results. 
ShippingProvider LVMassActionsMenu

The Mass Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations:

Menu Item Description
Mass Update Mass update one or more shipping provider records at a time.
Merge Merge two or more duplicate shipping providers.
Delete Delete one or more shipping provider records at a time.
Export Export one or more shipping provider records to a CSV file.
Doc Merge Select or create a DOCX template to merge record data into documents that will be accessible in the Doc Merge widget.
Doc Merge to PDF Select or create a DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX template to merge record data into PDF documents that will be accessible in the Doc Merge widget.
List View Record Actions Menu

The Record Actions menu to the far right of each record's row allows you to perform actions on individual shipping provider records directly from the list view.
ShippingProvider LVRecordActionsMenu

The list view's Record Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations:

Menu Item Description
Preview (Eye icon) Preview this shipping provider in the intelligence pane.
Edit Edit this shipping provider.
Delete Delete this shipping provider.
Doc Merge Select or create a DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX template to merge record data into documents that will be accessible in the Doc Merge widget.
Doc Merge to PDF Select or create a DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX template to merge record data into PDF documents that will be accessible in the Doc Merge widget.

Record View Actions Menu

The Shipping Providers record view displays a single shipping provider in full detail including its fields. To access a shipping provider's record view, simply click the hyperlinked shipping provider name in the Shipping Providers list view. The record view's Actions menu appears on the top right of the page and allows you to perform various operations on the current record. 
ShippingProvider RVActionsMenu

The Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations:

Menu Item Description
Edit Edit this shipping provider.
Share Share a link to this shipping provider via email.
Find Duplicates Locate potential duplicates of this shipping provider.
Copy Duplicate this shipping provider.
Delete Delete this shipping provider.
Doc Merge Select or create a DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX template to merge record data into documents that will be accessible in the Doc Merge widget.
Doc Merge to PDF Select or create a DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX template to merge record data into PDF documents that will be accessible in the Doc Merge widget.

Common Views and Actions

The following links will open specific sections of the User Interface documentation where you can read about views and actions that are common across most Sidecar modules. The sections following this table describe behaviors and functionality specific to the Products- and Quotes-related modules. 

Content Link Description
Creating Records
    Basic Record Creation
    Creating Via Quick Create
    Creating Via Subpanels
    Creating Via Duplication
    Importing Records

The Creating Records section covers the various methods of creating new records, including via the Create button in the module, via the subpanel on related module records, duplication of an existing record, and importing a list of records into Sugar using a .csv spreadsheet.

Viewing Records
    Viewing Via List View
    Viewing Via Record View
    Viewing Via Recently Viewed
    Viewing Via Activity Streams
    Viewing Via Preview
    Viewing Via Reports

The Viewing Records section describes the various methods of viewing records, including via the list view and record view, the Recently Viewed menu in the module tab, previewing records in the right-hand side panel, and reports displaying the record's data.

Searching for Records
    Global Search
    List View Search
        Creating a Filter
The Searching for Records section provides an introduction to the two searching methods for locating Sugar records: global search, which searches across all Sugar modules, and list view search, which searches and filters within the module.
List View
Total Record Count
Create Button
    List View Search
    Checkbox Selection
    Mass Actions Menu
    Favorite Designation
    Column Reordering
    Column Resizing
    Column Sorting
    Column Selection
    Preview
    Record Actions Menu
    Pagination
    Dashboards

The List View section walks through the many elements of the List View layout, which contains a filterable list of all records in the current module. While the generic menu options are described in the User Interface sections linked to the left, the options specifically available in the list view are described in the List View Mass Actions Menu and List View Record Actions Menu sections of the module overviews below.

Note: You can only mark records as favorites via the Product Catalog list view. 

Record View
    Favorite Designation
    Next or Previous Record
Actions Menu
    Show More
    Dashboards

The Record View section walks through the many elements of the Record View layout, which contains detailed information about a single record. While the generic menu options are described in the User Interface sections linked to the left, the options specifically available in the record view are described in the Record View Actions Menu sections of the module overview sections below.

Note: You can only mark records as favorites via the Product Catalog record view.

Editing Records
    Editing Inline Via Record View
    Editing Via Record View
    Editing Inline Via Subpanels
    Editing Inline Via List View
    Mass Editing Via List View

The Editing Records section describes the various methods of editing existing records, including inline via the record view, in full edit mode on the record view, inline via the subpanel on related module records, inline via the list view, and via the Mass Update option on the list view. 
Deleting Records
    Deleting Via Record View
    Deleting Via List View
    Mass Deleting Via List View
The Deleting Records section describes the various methods of deleting unwanted records, including via the record view, an individual record's Actions menu on the list view, and the Mass Actions menu on the list view.
Exporting Records The Exporting Records section provides an introduction to the export functionality, which allows you to download a list of records and all their data as a .csv file for use outside of Sugar (e.g. in Microsoft Excel).
Recalculating Calculated Values The Recalculating Calculated Values section provides instructions on utilizing the Recalculate Values list view option to update calculated field values in the module if the administrator has changed the field's formula via Admin > Studio.
Finding Duplicate Records The Finding Duplicate Records section provides instructions for locating duplicate records. If searching on matching fields (e.g. Name) identifies one or more duplicates, they can be merged into a single record.
Merging Records
    Merging Via List View
The Merging Records section provides instructions for merging duplicates, which combines field values and related records into a single record.
Favoriting Records
    Favoriting via List View
    Favoriting via Record View

The Favoriting Records section describes the various methods of marking records as favorites, including via the list view and record view.

Note: You can only mark records as favorites via the Product Catalog module. Favoriting a product catalog record allows you to easily access the product from the list view, Product Catalog Quick Picks dashlet, or the Product Catalog module tab. For more information on the Product Catalog Quick Picks dashlet, please refer to the Opportunities or Quotes documentation. 

Sharing Records The Sharing Records section provides instructions for the Share record view option, which composes an email with a link to the record. If the recipient is logged into Sugar, clicking the link will bring them directly to the record view.