With the help of bricks, content that is not to be fixed in the quote template can be quickly added and flexibly combined with each other. They are also used to map recurring structures effortlessly and without the risk of content errors in the quote.
Experience has shown that the following use cases occur particularly frequently:
General Terms and Conditions
Travel expense agreements
Quoting conditions
Company or employee portraits
Detailed product descriptions
Product combinations
Bricks can contain any number of quote items and can be conveniently placed in the document using the menu item Bricks in the inner vertical toolbar:
Components
Bricks can include numerous different quote items, e.g. text areas, products, sums or graphics. They increase the user's flexibility and reduce the time needed to edit the quote, especially in combination with quote templates. Without exception, any quote item can be part of a brick.
Bricks are always created globally, i.e. they are available to every user in every quote.
The only exception: bricks can be set to a specific language using the apperoLanguageLocale picklist. Then the locale selected at the opportunity determines the selection option in the editor.
Configuration in the editor
To create a brick in the editor, the desired quote items must be selected in the editor using the checkboxes in front. Subsequently, the blue toolbar on the left edge is used to select the lowest option "Create a new brick with selected items":
The window for creating a new brick will open:
The following editing options are available:
Menu option
Explanation
In this field you enter a name for the new Brick.
The language depends on the settings of the Opportunity. If it is set to a certain locale, the Brick will be specified to it as well. Otherwise the entry is "None". You can change the language settings of a Brick outside of the Editor on the associated record afterwards.
Under "Search Brick" you will find a list of all already existing Bricks. You can select them here and overwrite them with the new configuration here.
In the preview you can once again see the selected items of the Brick as they appear in the editor.
Click on "Save" to save the Brick as a new record.
If you select an existing Brick from the list or enter an already assigned name, the label changes from "New" to "Overwrite", i.e. you now change an existing Brick.
The "Cancel" function exits the menu without saving.
The object “Bricks”
When you save the Brick in the Editor, a record is simultaneously created at the "Bricks" custom object.
Here you can change the name of the Brick, assign a locale, set the Brick inactive or delete it. Only active Bricks are available in the quoting process.
The actual components of the Brick can be found in the "Related" tab under the BrickLineItems related lists:
Please note that if your Bricks contain column headers, they have to match the configuration of the quote you will insert the Brick into afterwards. Otherwise, columns may be mapped incorrectly in the quote.