You can add a new Activity in many places in OSL. 

Tasks menu > New Activity or directly in a Listing, a Sale or while editing a Contact.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

New Activity


Activity due date

The most important information for an Activity is the Date or Due Date.

This is the due date for your Activity or Task to be completed, or the date that you carried out the Activity.

If you add a Time to your Activity, it will automatically become an Appointment and will show on your Calendar as well as your To Do List.

Activity type

Every Activity must have a Type

Select and Activity type by typing a few letters of the Activity that you want in the Activity box.

Subject

Ad a subject for your Activity

Comments

Add a Comment to your Activity - Activity Comments are displayed on on the Vendor Activity report

Listing 

Link to a Listing - 

If the Activity is about a Listing in your database, start typing in the first few letters of the Listing the Listing box.

This is a lookup of your Listings database, just enter a few letters of the listing Address, Name or Listing ID and the listing should appear.

If you are creating an Activity on the Listing screen the listing will be automatically connected to the Activity



Contact

Link to a person in your database. You can link your Activity to a Person in your database. This means that you will see this Activity on their Activity tab. Do this by typing in the first few letters of their Name into the Contact box.

You can Find a Contact by using, part of their Name, Phone number or Email address.

If you are creating an Activity on the Contact details screen the Activity will automatically be attached to the current Contact.


Confidential

Activity Confidential field - This box can only be viewed by the user that created the Activity.

The Activity Confidential field CANNOT be viewed by any other agent in your company.

Assign to

Who are you creating this task for?  It will default to you but if you are an Admin user you can assign to another Agent in the office.

Email Agent

Use this option to  to send an email notification of the Activity to the Listing Agent.


Completed


Click on the Complete button to mark your task or Activity Completed


Download

You can download the Task as an OSL Activity .ics file


Save & New

When you select this checkbox your Activity will be saved and another Activity created.


Select the Schedule next Activity check-box and click on the Save button to save the current Activity and to immediately create a new Activity with all of the same details.


This saves you having to select the Activity type, select the Contact or Listing information again.


All you need to do is enter the new date.


Example

You might use Schedule next Activity option when you have spoken to a client and they have asked you to ring back in 2 weeks or you have completed an Anniversary activity and want to create another anniversary activity