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Make campaigns default to Active

Operational Reporting

See that little box in the bottom right corner? How many people have tried reporting on campaigns, etc., and can't find it because the campaign wasn't made Active? While it's a simple fix and workflow updates can also now take care of it, both of those are after-the-fact fixes. Let's have that checkbox field marked Active out of the box.

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John Kucera - 12 years ago

Also, for Winter '09, we're moving the default location of the Active checkbox for New organizations to the top left, making it much more obvious than it has been previously.
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Emma Linney - 25 days ago

Why no progress? Seeminly simple updates like this would make life so much easier. We don't always want need big bang development pieces, especially if all the energy goes into those and leaves older requests languishing!

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Messach Kurniawan - 2 years ago

Ability to set default values for all fields should be available in general.
it would save a lot of type and clicks through out the whole system.
This is one of the place where default values should be able to be set on

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Daniel Howell - 3 years ago

We created a process builder that activates and deactivates the campaign based on their start and end dates. You can check out an unmanaged package to install it here: http://gravitylab.nz/salesforce-admin-tools/

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Daniella LaGiglia - 10 years ago

At least give us the option to configure the box as default, or the option to choose from non-active campaigns when inputting donations.
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Richard Massey - 10 years ago

Whilst we are at it, can we also have the ability to change the default values of the campaign member status. Would be really, really useful
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Alex Passoni - 10 years ago

It should be a configuration option, like many other check box fields.
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Mattias Nordin - 11 years ago

Why not allow us to set the default value of this checkbox on the setup > fields page or on the page layout.
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John Kucera - 12 years ago

Also, for Winter '09, we're moving the default location of the Active checkbox for New organizations to the top left, making it much more obvious than it has been previously.
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Paul Nimitz - 13 years ago

New in Winter '08 - Campaigns are not required to be active for reporting purposes.
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HarvestFL - 13 years ago

Why don't you create a workflow to handle that? With the workflow have a field update to Active. Won't that work?
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Scott Jorgensen - 14 years ago

I think it should be a configuration option on the Page Layout. I can imagine scenarios where Campaigns have a life-cycle where they are proposed, then via Approval Workflow they are approved and made active.