SugarCRM recently announced the release of Sugar 7.9. With a redesigned Quotes Module, Sugar 7.9 feature enhancements aim to help organizations generate revenue faster all while being intuitive and more user-friendly. The Quotes Module is one of the prominent feature focused in the release of Sugar 7.9. Along with it, Sugar has also provided a new user interface built in the Sugar Sidecar framework, and features such as improvements to grouping, drag and drop reordering, multi-currency support enhancements, creating simpler and powerful sales quotes.

• Drag-and-drop line reordering, allowing users to easily arrange comments and quoted line items on the quote worksheet.
• The ability to perform mass actions on multiple line items and comments to add them to a new group or remove them via mass delete.
• The ability to search the product catalog by category and type in addition to name.
• Optional groups, making groups no longer required for quoted line items and providing the ability to add line items and comments outside of a group.
• The ability to save Quote PDFs from the related account or opportunity’s Quotes subpanel as well as from the quote’s record view.
• Smarter relate fields, hiding inactive tax rates and inactive shipping providers from their respective fields on the quote record.
• Sugar Logic, adding calculated fields in the quotes module.

• The “Description” and “Tags” fields are also now available and can be accessed via the list view

• “AND”
• “OR”
• “NOT”

• The “Support” and “Tour” links in Sugar’s footer have been moved to the help pane.

• Advanced Workflow Improvements to address more complex business use cases, improves the design and update processes, trigger processes based on fields changing to/from specific values. The solution also offers additional operators for evaluating text fields and additional variable user options for record assignment.
• Criteria can now be re-arranged or inserted in Advanced Workflow evaluation windows.
• New text field comparators have been added (“contains”, “starts with”, and “ends with”)
• Start events can now be triggered by a field changing or a field changing to or from a specified value.
• Created-by and modified-by users are now available for Change Field and Add Related Record actions.
• Built-in validation for date calculations.
• Improved performance through an improved data query framework by enabling administrators to execute the same (or similar) SQL statements repeatedly. The updated framework also improves database scalability and security.

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