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Drag and Drop Org Chart

Jamie Grenney Nov 30, 2005

When working with large customers, it’s important to have an understanding of the account and contact hierarchies. You want to know who reports to who and whether or not a company is a subsidiary of a larger entity.

As many of you may well know this is standard functionality in Salesforce.com, but thanks to a free plug-in from Dream Factory, updating these hierarchies is easier than ever. 

Dreamfactoryorgchart

In a matter of minutes, you can create a custom link on the account and contact page. All you have to do is cut and paste the code below. 

Once your org chart links are in place, your reps will have the ability to launch the org chart and make changes on the fly in a simple drag and drop interface.

https://www.dreamfactory.com/orgview/orgview.html?
sessionid={!API_Session_ID}&
serverurl={!API_Partner_Server_URL_60}&
username={!User_Username}&
fullname={!User_FullName}&
linkid={!Account_ID}&
userid={!User_ID}

Creating_a_web_link

 

6 Comments

Chris

This totally roasted my web browser when I tried it - did anyone else have that happen?

Fifedog

Chris - It worked fine with Safari on my mac and Firefox on my pc. I think this is Amazing! Can we add an "Active" filter so it will only look at the active employees?

voltagecrm

Great tool! Easy to setup and use.

M. Dunson

Great Idea...we can certainly put this to use!

Successforce

Firefox is totally supported, but doesn't automatically install the Dream Factory plug-in like IE does. Here are all the free installers on a page:

http://www.dreamfactory.com/download/download.html

They want to run this one for Firefox:

http://www.dreamfactory.com/codebase/winplug.exe

Gabriela

I downloaded OrgView from the AppExchange and then when I went to click preview, I got a server error. Anyone else experience this? So I can't get it to work.

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