Setting Follow-Up activity options for Mail Merge

The Mail Merge Follow-Up Options tab is used to create a follow-up activities to the mail merge.

To schedule a follow-up activity to a mail merge:

  1. Start a mail merge.
  2. Complete the History Options tab. See Setting history options for Mail Merge
  3. Click the Follow-Up Options tab.
  4. Select Schedule a Follow-Up, and select the type of follow-up activity you require to schedule if you require to schedule follow-up activities,

    If you do not require to schedule follow-up activities, clear this option and proceed to step 13.

  5. Select Schedule separate follow-up activities for each contact option if the Merge With criteria was in-context of another entity, such as account, or sales order, and to create a separate follow-up activity for each contact associated with that record.
    Note: Clear this option, if you require to create a single follow-up activity for each in-context record that includes all contacts associated with that record.
  6. Select Carry Over Notes to carry over the notes to the follow-up activity.
  7. Select Timeless if the follow-up activity do not require to be scheduled for a specific time or duration, and click Start Time to select the date.
    Note: 
    • Administrators defining a customer journey mail merge step, must disregard this step.
    • Clear the Timeless options if the follow-up activity will be scheduled for a specific time or duration, click the Start Time button to select the date and time, specify or select a Duration number and time increment, and then, if desired, select Reminder and specify or select a number and time increment to be notified before the activity start time.
      Note: Administrators defining a customer journey mail merge step, specify the Start Time, but not Start Date.
  8. Click the Regarding arrow to select a regarding type.
  9. Click the Priority arrow to select the importance of the activity.
  10. Use the Leader Lookup to select an activity leader.
    Note: Administrators defining a customer journey mail merge step, must disregard this step. See Adding or Editing a Customer Journey Mail Merge Step.
  11. Click the Category arrow to select a category type.
  12. Specify notes in the Notes field.
    Note: You can click Notes to view a larger field for specifying notes. Specify the notes, and then click OK.
  13. Click OK or Merge when finished setting the Merge, History, and Follow-Up options.