Apttus CPQ : X-Author Template - Print Format Permissions

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Hi All,

Lets discuss about the print formats permission for different profiles.

USE CASE:

For some user, we want such restrictions that they should be able to generate quote is pdf only so that further alteration will not be possible (like word doc).

See the below image:
By Clicking on Preview Button:

You can see the different output formats here, user can select any of these. But we want to restrict user with .pdf only.

How to do that ?

There are few steps to follow:

1. Go To All Tabs

2. Search and Open tab 'Proposal Document Output Formats'

3. Select the Profile from drop down for which you want to restrict the permissions to pdf only.

4. Click on Edit Button.

5. You will see the below screen:

Proposal Type: These are the record type of proposal, for which record type we need to put restrictions.

Choose the PDF in radio buttons for the record type.

Allow Watermark : You can place a watermark. There is default watermark which appear on Previewed Proposal, not on Generated Proposal.

NOTE: Generate button have this 'Watermark' optional. Preview button do not give any option o select or deselect this Preview check box. If you 'Allow Watermark' in above setting, it will put watermark text by default on previewed file.

Now, lets see the these changes, Click on Preview Button.

You can see that by default we got PDF selected. All other format radio buttons are in disable mode, user can not select any of them.

Just select the template and generate the preview.

If you are facing any issue in this setup, just reach out to me radhe636@gmail.com or +91 8574715370

Thanks

Apttus CPQ: X-Author Contract (for Word)

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Hi All,

                                                 

Today, let’s discuss about X-Author Contract (for Windows OS).

X-Author Contract for word is a MS Word Plugin which is used to design dynamic templates for your Quotes or for your contracts.

To Setup this plugin, just download from Apttus Portal.

Below are the steps:

Login, Choose Apttus Install Center

Select the below tool and download.

Install it in your machine. 

Now, Attach this plugin in your MS Word.

Go To Options -> Add Ins

Select the X-Author Contracts, click ok.

Now, wait for few seconds, you will see 2 new tabs in to ribbon in your MS Word.

Make a connection with Salesforce

Connect to Salesforce, see image

Now you are logged in successfully.

If you want to edit the existing template, click on Check out, but I do not have existing, I am going to create New template.

Click on ‘New’

Fill the details

Click ‘Create New’

On Blank Page, Create Some Structure of your Template. Put logos, tables, Labels.

Now, insert the fields from Proposal which will render dynamically at the time of proposal 

generation.

You will see Quote/Proposal fields like below:

Select the field and insert in proper cell against your Label

Now, for Line items, Select Insert Field from Menu, the select the Line item(see below) and select the multiple field with CTRL+Click.

Mark Insert as a table.

Click Finish.

All Line Columns will be inserted.

Now click on Check-In

Activate and Click on Check In.

Now we are done here with template Creation.

Go to SFDC, Search for 'Template' tab and open.

Put Your Proposal record type name in ‘Agreement Type’ field.

Your file is here below in Attachment.

Now Go to Proposal and try to Preview this.

  

Select the format and Listed file, click on Generate.

And we are done. You will get the below result. J

If you are facing any issue in this setup, just reach out to me radhe636@gmail.com or +91 8574715370

Apttus CPQ : Handle Conditional Pricing Using Price Matrix

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Hi Geeks,

Here I am back with one more informative article.
Discussing, how to handle the complex and conditional pricing in Apttus CPQ.

Lets take a use case:

Kloudrac is a company which have vary good relation with Cisco and have 5 star rating, Kloudrac used to buy the conferencing and other tools from Cisco.

For 5 Start rating customers, Cisco give the 30% flat discounts on certain products like WebEx Premium.

We know that we can handle this  scenario using apex code easily in Pricing CallBack class.
But Apttus has given the Out Of Box configurable feature to handle such scenarios.

Here: Kloudrac is Account with 5 Star Rating.

Lets setup step by step:

Step 1: Create Formula field 'Customer Rating' on Line Item
Step 2: Create Price Dimension by taking Line Item's 'Customer Rating'
Step 3: Create Price Matrix for 'WebEx Premium's Price List Item.
Step 4: Define Matrix Entries based on Criteria and Dimensions(created in step 2)
Step 5: Save and run the 'Criteria Maintenance' job.


Step 1: Create Formula field 'Customer Rating' on Line Item

Fetch 'Rating' field from Account to Line Item (Apttus_Config2__LineItem__c) object using formula field.
We are adding this field on Line Item because, we need to define the Price Dimensions where we will use this 'Customer Rating' field from Line Item.

Step 2: Create Price Dimension by taking Line Item's 'Customer Rating'

Navigate to All Tab -> Price Dimension ->New

Step 3: Create Price Matrix for 'WebEx Premium's Price List Item.

Define the following values in Summary tab.

Step 4: Define Matrix Entries based on Criteria and Dimensions(created in step 2)
Switch to 'Detail' tab and fill the values for 'Matrix Entries'

Step 5: Save and Run the 'Criteria Maintenance' job.

And we are done.


Now, Add your product in cart. You will see the applied adjustments on List Price.

If you face any issue in this setup, give contact me on +91 8574715370 or drop email on 'radhe636@gmail.com'

Thanks.
Radhe S