Answered by:
Update Quote Product with Quote Product Workflow (4.0)

Question
-
I went to create a Quote Product workflow today that updates a custom attribute on a Quote Product when a different attribute changes.
I couldn't believe it, but the only options for Update are: Created By (user), Modified By (user), Product, Quote, Salesperson (user).
REALLY?!
Am I crazy? Why can't I update an attribute on a Quote Product record from a Quote Product workflow? Anyone else run into this?
Camille
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:58 PM
Answers
-
I guess you are right, Quote Product entity is not an option. You may raise this to Microsoft, but I believe MSCRM team must have a reason for doing that, so you may not be able to expect a solution anyway.
Two alternatives I can think of:
- Write custom workflow code to do the job for you
- Write custom plug-in instead of using workflow
Daniel Cai | http://danielcai.blogspot.com- Proposed as answer by Faisal Fiaz Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:24 AM
- Marked as answer by CamilleJ Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:23 PM
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:34 PM
All replies
-
I guess you are right, Quote Product entity is not an option. You may raise this to Microsoft, but I believe MSCRM team must have a reason for doing that, so you may not be able to expect a solution anyway.
Two alternatives I can think of:
- Write custom workflow code to do the job for you
- Write custom plug-in instead of using workflow
Daniel Cai | http://danielcai.blogspot.com- Proposed as answer by Faisal Fiaz Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:24 AM
- Marked as answer by CamilleJ Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:23 PM
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:34 PM -
The reason I think is that they are using Java scripting for calculation therefore if an update is done it will not trigger these scipts. Daniel has suggested a correct solution.
Regards FaisalWednesday, January 19, 2011 9:27 AM -
Thanks for the responses guys. That is just too bad. A custom plugin is an aweful lot of work to update a simple attribute.
I'll do it with javascript instead I guess...
Camille http://mscrm-workarounds.blogspot.com/Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:20 PM