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Troubleshooting a Printable Error Message in Creatio

Creatio’s printable functionality helps you build some fairly complex reports with report headers and tables. With small reports, it’s usually easy to track report changes and make sure they’re in sync with the database when you change or removing fields that are no longer needed. Sometimes,…

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How to Install and Launch a Creatio Local Instance

This blog lays out the steps to deploy Creatio locally on your Windows machine. Read on for step-by-step instructions.

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How to Modify the Account Address Page in Creatio to Handle Multiple Map Locations

In my previous blog, I described how to set up a service in Creatio to retrieve a set of locations from a specified radius around a given location. Once this data service has been set up, the next step is to integrate its data onto the AccountAddressPageV2 so Creatio can handle multiple map…

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Building a Creatio Web Service That Retrieves a List of Account Addresses in a Specified Radius

Instead of building a lot of UI logic to get a list of accounts near a specific location, it’s easier to build a Creatio Web service that does the work of finding those locations and displaying them on the UI page. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to build a Creatio Web service to…

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How to Change the Default Map Icon in Creatio

When working with Accounts in Creatio, the account address screen features the address fields and the ability to plot a map of the current location. In some situations, it might be necessary to change the default map icon that comes standard with Creatio. Here’s how to change the default icon in a…

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The 411 on Creatio's User Management and Permissions

Creatio's user management and security permissions are used to configure exactly what each user can see within their system. Let's take a closer look at the levels of user management and permissions we can utilize in Creatio.

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How to Integrate Built-in System Processes into a Custom Creatio Business Process

When building processes in Creatio, we may need to integrate the necessary data logic with other available built-in system processes. Normally an admin might need to go to the system administration area, find the necessary system feature, and run it to achieve the desired result. Behind the scenes…

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Build Powerful Content: Use Creatio's Email Templates

Creatio's email templates can be used to build content for your targeted recipient lists. Use Creatio’s Content Designer to build these emails and reuse the templates whenever.

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Creatio's Process Designer: Defined

Creatio's Process Designer allows users to design, create, and edit business processes for both simple and complex use cases. Building these automations helps businesses improve operational efficiency, streamline compliance objectives, cut down on manual errors, and provide a consistent…

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How to Summarize Data in Creatio Charts by Calendar Quarter

Creatio has some great reporting capabilities that allow for list, chart and various pipeline reporting formats. When building a chart to display totals based on an opportunity, currently there are options to summarize data by Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour, and a few combinations of these options…

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How to do ESQ Subquery Filtering in Creatio Based on a Child Object

Sometimes however there is a need to build a complex filter in Creatio that is effectively a subquery that depends on other related object information. In this case the specification of the filter object is a little more involved and needs to be configured correctly so that data from the related…

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How to Add a Primary Contact Module to a Custom Account Page in Creatio

Usually, the Creatio account page has the necessary layout to cover most of the information that should be recorded at the account level for different types of accounts. In some situations however, it might be necessary to create separate account pages based on a condition like the account type.

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How to Create In-App Notifications in Creatio

Creatio uses the Notification center to alert users to key reminders: scheduled activities, feed messages, approvals, and more. Did you know that you can push custom alerts to the Notification center for any necessary information or reminders? This encourages users to be logged in and monitoring…

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Investigating SugarCRM's "Action Required: Your SugarCloud Managed Storage" Email

SugarCRM recently started enforcing SugarCloud managed storage limits. When you get the "Action Required: Your SugarCloud Managed Storage" email from SugarCRM, you can choose to decrease your usage or purchase more storage space.

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How to Enable Creatio IP Address Restrictions

Most businesses allow their users to access their Creatio site from anywhere, but some organizations need a more secure site that can only be accessed from their office (or via VPN) by some or all of their users. In this scenario, you can use the Creatio IP Address Restriction features to limit…

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