Campaigns and Leads sub panel

[Johnmclucas]

Hi,

We are starting to use Leads and Campaigns now. When we create a Lead we are putting in the Campaign they came from, but there is not sub panel under the Campaigns for the Leads. I have looked around and it is listed in Studio, but does not show up. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

[roblaus]

Hi,

No, I don't think you miss something. Campaigns (at least in the OS version) only have target lists and they in turn may have leads, targets, contacts and users.

The logic goes the other way round - you put a lead on a target list and once you "do" something (means sending the campaign or mark it as sent) then the campaign is placed under the respective entity.

I agree, it would be nice to have it the other way round as well - something like "external" campaigns (some say such exist) where you want to control the outcome in a more detailed way.

On the other hand - there are some rumors that there will be sort of an overhaul of the campaign module in version 5. Nothing announced yet...

rgds
rl

[Johnmclucas]

Thanks for the reply.

I have been poking around and it looks like the DB relationship is there already and just not used. I have been trying to get the campaign name to show up on the list view of leads and I go to the point of the id showing up, but not the actual name.

Thanks again,

John

[Johnmclucas]

So In case anyone is interested. The code for the Leads subpanel on Campaigns is really all in place.

This block of code from DetailView.php is what is keeping it from showing up.

  foreach ($alltabs as $name) {
            if ($name != 'prospectlists' and $name!='emailmarketing' and $name != 'tracked_urls') {
                $subpanel->subpanel_definitions->exclude_tab($name);
            }
        } 
  

I changed it to and they show up

       foreach ($alltabs as $name) {
            if ($name != 'leads' and $name != 'prospectlists' and $name!='emailmarketing' and $name != 'tracked_urls') {
                $subpanel->subpanel_definitions->exclude_tab($name);
            }
        } 
  

[roblaus]

Cool, love that one!