marking Leads as read by assigned user

[mindsweep]

is there a way to show which leads have been read by the user assigned to them?

eg a new lead come in via a web form
the lead is then assigned to Sales Guy 1

Sales Guy 1 view his list of leads and sees the new lead marked as uread by owner
He then views or edits the lead
the lead is then no longer marked as unread by owner

Can this be done or is there a straight forward way to implement this?

thanks

[mindsweep]

solved:

managed to do this using a after_retrieve logic hook to mark lead as read after viewed by owner and then save it plus a before_save logic hook to mark a lead as unread if the owner is changed

[eggsurplus]

Absolutely, great way of doing it!

[mindsweep]

have discovered an issue with this

if change read by flag in after_retrieve and the save the lead, the leads email address is lost (still in the database but retireved with the lead) and any custom form fields are not displayed when lead view is returned to browser

the custom fields will be shown if i refresh the page but it is not a good thing
email address does not come back

will post new thread in developer help